Pétronille
A Novel
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
Two female authors share adventures and champagne in this witty novel about friendship by the celebrated author of Hygeine and the Assassin.
With wry humor and a deceptively simple style, Pétronille tells an unusual story about twin abiding passions: one for champagne, and the other for a riotous friendship between her protagonist and Pétronille Fanto, a woman who refuses to drink alone.
This is a funny, moving, exotic novel about travel, France, champagne, and, above all, women's friendship. The on-again/off-again friendship between Pétronille and the main character in the book, who happens to be a writer by the name of Amélie Nothomb, gives the story its verve and the novel its heart. This is literary Thelma & Louise, with a little bit of French panache and a whole lot of champagne thrown in.
Praise for Pétronille
“Rich, truly funny, and as inappropriate as a glass of Dom Pérignon at ten in the morning.” —Elle (France)
“Nothomb’s novel is full of energy.” —Publishers Weekly
“A slight, frothy bubble of a book, in Amélie Nothomb’s signature lighthearted style.” —Shelf Awareness
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Intoxication doesn't just happen. It's an art," Nothomb (Hygiene and the Assassin) writes in her latest novel, dripping with champagne and mischief. The protagonist, Nothomb, is a bibulous author in search of a "comvinion" (a drinking companion) and ends up with fan P tronille, of whom which she had already a long epistolary relationship. Upon meeting P tronille, Am lie is bewildered by her youthful, boyish appearance and even more by her audacious and impish nature yet still, she is certain she has found the "Chosen One" to drink with. The women drink themselves into oblivion at the Ritz, in cafes, and while skiing. P tronille follows in Am lie's footsteps and finds herself succeeding as an author but still cannot seem to pay the bills. Consequently, she agrees to work as a pharmaceutical test patient, which inevitably fractures the little peace of mind she has. Am lie becomes embittered by P tronille's obstinate and erratic nature, yet she refuses to let P tronille destroy herself. Nothomb's novel is full of energy.
