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A wicked satire about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything.In the over-legislated world of this outrageous black comedy, a death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media-- and the tobacco conglomerates--after he demands his right to a final cigarette . . . in a smoke-free prison. Meanwhile, a little girl accuses a petty municipal bureaucrat of sexual perversion when she catches him sneaking a cigarette. Incredulously, he realizes that in this world where children are not just kings, but tyrants, a cigarette could lead him to the electric chair.At the cutting edge of European fiction, controversial author Benoît Duteurtre creates a world wildly askew, yet disconcertingly close to our own, in this daring, antic satire.
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The Little Girl and the Cigarette, Benoît Duteurtre
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- Released
- 2006
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Good
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- Title
- The Little Girl and the Cigarette
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Benoît Duteurtre
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 187
- ISBN10
- 1933633123
- ISBN13
- 9781933633121
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Sci-Fi, France, French Literature, Dystopia
- First published
- 2005
- Original title
- La petite fille et la cigarette
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- A wicked satire about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything.In the over-legislated world of this outrageous black comedy, a death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media-- and the tobacco conglomerates--after he demands his right to a final cigarette . . . in a smoke-free prison. Meanwhile, a little girl accuses a petty municipal bureaucrat of sexual perversion when she catches him sneaking a cigarette. Incredulously, he realizes that in this world where children are not just kings, but tyrants, a cigarette could lead him to the electric chair.At the cutting edge of European fiction, controversial author Benoît Duteurtre creates a world wildly askew, yet disconcertingly close to our own, in this daring, antic satire.