This week my teaser lines come from Vertigo (original title: D'entre les Morts), the classic French mystery novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (Pushkin Press, September 2015; originally published 1954). I read this one on my Kindle, so I'm not exactly sure about page numbers -- this snippet is taken from later in the novel, around Location 1430-40:
What he loved in her -- and it had been so all along -- was... that she wasn't quite real.... Only the eyes were perfect, only they were the absolute proof.
He would have liked to throw his arms round her, to embrace her; yes, perhaps to suffocate her.
Ah, yes. That is definitely real love, n'est-ce pas?
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I've heard of this book but haven't read it. All those ellipses are distracting, but I guess I'd get used to them! Sounds like an obsessive love.
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I loved the excerpt and now I want to read it. Thanks for sharing...and for visiting my blog.
ReplyDeleteThat last line is a real zinger, isn't it? Great teaser this week! I hope you enjoy this book. I would definitely want to keep reading.
ReplyDeleteHere is mine if you are interested: http://www.literaryfeline.com/2015/09/where-is-your-bookmark-09152015.html
LOL Sounds like love to me...
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