Delphine de Vigan
1) No and Me
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parisian teenager Lou has an IQ of 160, OCD tendencies, and a mother who has suffered from depression for years. But Lou is about to change her life-and that of her parents-all because of a school project about homeless teens. While doing research, Lou meets No, a teenage girl living on the streets. As their friendship grows, Lou bravely asks her parents if No can live with them, and is astonished when they agree. No's presence forces Lou's family...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, meta-fictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too--even as it holds us in its thrall.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A cautionary tale, a gripping cleverly told story of intrigue and deception, a heartfelt denunciation of contemporary online culture, Delphine de Vigan's new novel is all these things and more. The first time Mélanie met Clara, she was stunned by Clara's sense of authority. For her part, Clara was struck by Mélanie's pink, glittery nails. "She looks like a child," thought the first. "She looks like a doll," pondered the second. Two women who could...
Author
Publisher
Librairie generale francaise
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Français
Description
Lou Bertignac is thirteen, with an IQ of 160. At home her father hides his sadness, while her mother, after the death of her second child, barely speaks. Lou escapes by frequenting Paris's Gare d'Austerlitz; observing the emotional scenes amid the arrivals and departures. There she meets No, a homeless girl, and makes her the subject of her class project. Then No disappears, leaving Lou devastated. However, when Lou's parents agree to let No come...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Circus
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone. She was a former child model from a Bohemian family, younger and more glamorous than the other mothers. But as Delphine grew up, Lucile's occasional sadness gave way to overwhelming despair and delusion. She became convinced she was telepathic, in control of the Paris metro system; she gave away all her money; she was hospitalized, medicated, and released in a kind...
Author
Series
Livre de poche volume 32835
Publisher
JC Lattès
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone. She was a former child model from a Bohemian family, younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick, wayward and wonderful. But as Delphine grew up, Lucile's occasional sadness gave way to overwhelming despair and delusion. She became convinced she was telepathic and in control of the Paris metro system; she gave away all her money; she was hospitalized,...
10) Underground time
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago - she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do. Thibault is a paramedic. Every day he drives to the addresses he receives from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Audiolib
Pub. Date
p℗© 2016
Language
Français
Description
This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, meta-fictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too--even as it holds us in its thrall.
13) No Et Moi
Author
Series
Publisher
Audiolib
Pub. Date
℗©2016
Language
Français
Description
Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend called Lucas who gets her through the school day. At home her father cries in secret in the bathroom and her mother hasn't been out of the house properly for years. But Lou is about to change her life - and that of her parents - for good, all because of a school project she decides to do about the homeless. Through the project Lou meets No, a teenage girl living on the streets. As their friendship grows,...