Used book – L'écume des jours, Boris Vian, Gilbert Pestureau

A light and luminous title that announces a funny or biting, tender or serious, fascinating and unforgettable love story, written by a twenty-six-year-old author. It is a tale from the age of jazz and science fiction, both comical and poignant, happy and tragic, magical and heartbreaking. In this work of insolent modernity, a cult book for over fifty years, Duke Ellington meets cartoons, Sartre becomes a burlesque puppet, death takes the form of a water lily, and nightmares go all the way to despair.

But only two things remain eternal and triumphant: the ineffable joy of absolute love and the music of Black Americans…

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