The Disappearance of Odile
The Disappearance of Odile
Publisher Hamish Hamilton
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Odile Pointet is eighteen and intends to kill herself, since life has lost all meaning for her. So she flees from her stifling family home in Lausanne to lose herself in Paris, meaning to snatch a few days of freedom before taking her own life. But things don't turn out quite so simply...
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About the Author
Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Simenon's first novel, Au Pont des Arches, was written in June 1919 and published in 1921 under his "G. Sim" pseudonym. Writing as "Monsieur Le Coq", he also published more than 800 humorous pieces between November 1919 and December 1922.
From 1921 to 1934 he used a total of 17 pen names while writing 358 novels and short stories.
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