Teddy Bear (Romans Durs)
Aug 2027 · Sold by Picador
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A masterful portrait of a life coming undone under the pressure of guilt, ambition, and suppressed desires.
“A teddy bear in a child’s bed.” This is the image that comes, unbidden, to the mind of Professor Chabot, a renowned gynecologist, when he happens upon Emma, a young night shift nurse asleep in his clinic. Weighed down by the demands of keeping up appearances in his painstakingly earned picture-perfect life, will Chabot’s feelings of tenderness curve into a darker desire? When the young woman throws herself into the Seine and Chabot starts to receive anonymous death threats, the carefully constructed veneer of his life starts to come apart, sending the doctor down a spiraling path of guilt, memory, remorse, and anger. In Teddy Bear, Georges Simenon constructs a masterful portrait of the poisoning effects of guilt and ambition.
“A teddy bear in a child’s bed.” This is the image that comes, unbidden, to the mind of Professor Chabot, a renowned gynecologist, when he happens upon Emma, a young night shift nurse asleep in his clinic. Weighed down by the demands of keeping up appearances in his painstakingly earned picture-perfect life, will Chabot’s feelings of tenderness curve into a darker desire? When the young woman throws herself into the Seine and Chabot starts to receive anonymous death threats, the carefully constructed veneer of his life starts to come apart, sending the doctor down a spiraling path of guilt, memory, remorse, and anger. In Teddy Bear, Georges Simenon constructs a masterful portrait of the poisoning effects of guilt and ambition.
A masterful portrait of a life coming undone under the pressure of guilt, ambition, and suppressed desires.
“A teddy bear in a child’s bed.” This is the image that comes, unbidden, to the mind of Professor Chabot, a renowned gynecologist, when he happens upon Emma, a young night shift nurse asle...
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Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. An intrepid traveler with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand—and not to judge—the human condition in all its shades. His books include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon.
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. An intrepid traveler with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand—and not to judge—the human condition in all its shades. His books include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wide...
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