Used book – A Promising Start, Nicolas Rey

With remarkable economy of words, through subtle touches and lucid, disenchanted slices of life, an entire sentimental education unfolds – the pitfalls of love and desire, and life's great failures – seen through the destinies of three men: the father at the end of his rope, Martin, the older brother already worn out by a life tested by ambition and renunciation, and Henry, the narrator, a teenager on the cusp of adulthood and adult love. A short and magnificent coming-of-age novel.