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Praise for the French edition of Absolute Perfection of Crime:
“A remarkable success. Revisiting the mythology of the gangster film, this action novel succeeds in carrying the script of a B movie to the heights of tragedy.”
“A ‘roman noir’ that dynamites the genre.”
“Fascinating.”
The Absolute Perfection of Crime
A Novel
Translated by Linda Coverdale
hardcover
$22.95
Absolute Perfection of Crime is a novel with all the originality, toughness, and surprises of the best black-and-white film noir. Setting: A small French seaside town. Characters: A group of old crooks, on the verge of retirement. Plot: One final coup—an imaginative and brazen hold-up of the local casino. Thus starts the perfect crime.
Author Tanguy Viel is too young to have seen the Hollywood crime films of the 1950s when they first appeared, but American film noir, along with the modern, gritty visions of directors such as Martin Scorsese and Abel Ferrara, have shaped both his imagination and literary style. This brilliant and promising young French novelist is sure to delight an American audience.
Born in 1973, Tanguy Viel lives in Nantes, France. He is the author of two previous novels, Black Note and Cinéma. Linda Coverdale’s most recent translation for The New Press is Tahar Ben Jelloun’s This Blinding Absence of Light. She won the French American Foundation’s Translation Prize in 1997. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Fall 2002
hardcover
5 1/4 x 7 1/2, 128 pages
978-1-56584-757-6
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