marche ou crève

roman

mass market paperback, 378 pages

French language

Published Feb. 11, 1989 by Albin Michel.

ISBN:
978-2-253-15139-5
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OCLC Number:
469430096

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4 stars (46 reviews)

Garraty, un jeune adolescent natif du Maine, va concourir pour la "Longue Marche". Mais ce n'est pas une marche comme les autres, plutôt un jeu sans foi ni loi ...

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Gobsmackingly funny but bleak beyond repair. I enjoyed every page but it's just too goddamn bleak.

So, the book's about a bunch of dead men walking. I didn't really care for the social commentary that's supposed to be there if you squint your eyes. Past the premise, past the setup, the author didn't care either. Death men don't care.

It's also about a bunch of kids dying. Kids who don't know any better. They get to learn though. Not much. But they wizen up to how wrong they were about everything. Disabused of their convictions about their bodies, strength. Their minds, their fancy plans. A long, strung out, emphasized, capitalized but pointless lesson. Divine enlightenment during bad trip that doesn't seem to end. Raw reality received and processed but soon to be forgotten, too absurd to be any useful. You drop when you drop. Till then, maybe you get to …

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