An edition of Blauwe maandagen (1994)

Blauwe maandagen

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An edition of Blauwe maandagen (1994)

Blauwe maandagen

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The novel's protagonist - named Arnon, like its author - is a young man on the run: expelled from high school and on the outs with his ailing father, he spends his days and nights living a vagabond's life on the streets of Amsterdam. He falls abjectly in love with a waitress in an Italian restaurant, and sneaks into fancy bars and hotels only to skip out when the check arrives.

Then he begins to visit prostitutes, girls no older or wiser than he is - and his fumbling, guileless, surprisingly tender encounters with them we see the sadness beneath his nonstop comic riffing, and the profound restlessness that drives his search for adventure. The novel's Amsterdam is a place where sex is cheap but love is scarce. Arnon gets by on his cleverness and his sense of humor, and it is these that make Blue Mondays so fresh and entertaining.

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English
Pages
278

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Lundis bleus
Lundis bleus
June 6, 2002, Editions 10/18
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Blauwe Maandagen
Blauwe Maandagen
1999, Nijgh & Van Ditmar
Paperback in Dutch
Cover of: Blauer Montag.
Blauer Montag.
March 1, 1999, Diogenes Verlag
Paperback in German
Cover of: Blauer Montag
Blauer Montag: Roman
1999, Diogenes
in German
Cover of: Blauer Montag.
Blauer Montag.
1999, Diogenes
in German
Cover of: Lunes Azules
Lunes Azules
February 1, 1998, Grijalbo
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Blue Mondays
Blue Mondays
1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Blauwe maandagen
Blauwe maandagen
1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
Cover of: Blauwe maandagen
Blauwe maandagen
1994, Nijgh & Van Ditmar
in Dutch

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Classifications

Library of Congress
PT5881.17.R96B5513, PT5881.17.R96 B5513 1996

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL35869388M
Internet Archive
bluemondays0000grun
ISBN 10
0374114854
LCCN
96017252
OCLC/WorldCat
34598090

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December 26, 2021 Edited by Lisa Added link to IA copy.
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