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008 960828s1997 nyu 000 1 eng
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050 00 $aPQ2663.A7678$bC4313 1997
082 00 $a843/.914$220
100 1 $aCarrère, Emmanuel,$d1957-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82150638
240 10 $aClasse de neige.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96083723
245 10 $aClass trip :$ba novel /$cEmmanuel Carrère ; translated by Linda Coverdale.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt,$c1997.
263 $a9701
300 $a162 pages ;$c19 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $a"Originally published in France in 1995 under the title, La Classe de neige, by P.O.L. At the publisher's suggestion, one chapter of the original text has been cut for the American edition"--T.p. verso.
520 $aThe young hero of Emmanuel Carrere's best-selling novel is little Nicolas, whose school ski outing seems doomed from the start. First, his father (a traveling prosthesis salesman) refuses to let Nicolas take the school bus with the rest of his class because of a recent tragedy in which a number of children burned to death.
520 8 $aThen, to make matters worse, he drops off Nicolas but forgets to take his son's suitcase out of the trunk, reducing Nicolas to begging the other children for such bare essentials as a toothbrush and pajamas (a source of particular tension since Nicolas is still accident-prone at night).
520 8 $aFaithful to the strict logic that governs a child's mind, Carrere recounts Nicolas's feverish fantasies stoked by the lurid tales of kidnapping and organ theft he has been told by his father. The fantasies grow frighteningly real when a child from the local village disappears. Sure that the child has fallen victim to one of the organ bandits his father always warns him about, Nicolas convinces a classmate to help him investigate the matter in the best heroic school-boy style.
520 8 $aBut in this wrenching novel, the fantasy of two young boys fearlessly braving dangers to capture the bad guys gives way to a much simpler, more sinister, more devastating reality.
700 1 $aCoverdale, Linda.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94029024
852 00 $bglx$hPQ2663.A7678$iC4313 1997