Book Description
An actor and a divorcee meet in a deserted New York City afterhours bar. With little in common save loneliness, middle age, and a presentiment of escape, they improvise a love story. The fragility and fear that drive their experiment from moment to moment, bedroom to bedroom, transform this boy-meets-girl into a literary potboiler in which risk becomes salvation. Georges Simenon supreme master of the modern psychological story has been praised by writers from Ernest Hemingway to Andre Gide.
Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (New York Review Books Classics Series) FROM THE PUBLISHER
An actor, recently divorced, at loose ends in New York; a woman, no less lonely, perhaps even more desperate than the man: they meet by chance in an all-night diner and are drawn to each other on the spot. Roaming the city streets, hitting its late night dives, dropping another coin into yet another jukebox, these two lost souls struggle to understand what it is that has brought them, almost in spite of themselves, together. They are driven - from moment to moment, from bedroom to bedroom - to improvise the most unexpected of love stories, a tale of suspense where risk alone offers salvation.