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In this improbable love story, Toussaint creates a character who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happens? He takes driving lessons, goes grocery shopping, spends endless hours with an adorable employee of the driving school he attends. And though he is aloof, though caught up in his own actions and in the movement of his own thoughts—he somehow emerges as surprisingly insightful and also very funny. In Toussaint’s touching novel, we come to know this character intimately and yet know almost nothing about him. These two extremes, existing together, are at the heart of Toussaint’s remarkable style.

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That "Camera" should have waited 20 years to find an English-language publisher is scandalous.' -Tom McCarthy, New York Times

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Matthew B Smith

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      Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
      Published 18 December 2008
      ISBN-13 9781564785220
      978-1564785220
      ISBN-10 156478522X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In this improbable love story, Toussaint creates a character who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happens? He takes driving lessons, goes grocery shopping, spends endless hours with an adorable employee of the driving school he attends. And though he is aloof, though caught up in his own actions and in the movement of his own thoughts—he somehow emerges as surprisingly insightful and also very funny. In Toussaint’s touching novel, we come to know this character intimately and yet know almost nothing about him. These two extremes, existing together, are at the heart of Toussaint’s remarkable style.

      Trade Review
      That "Camera" should have waited 20 years to find an English-language publisher is scandalous.' -Tom McCarthy, New York Times

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