Used book – You're Joking, Mr. Tanner, Jean-Paul Dubois

Before inheriting the family home, Paul Tanner led a peaceful existence. But since he decided to restore it, nothing has gone right! Insane bricklayers, delinquent roofers, mad electricians, all seem to have conspired to make his life impossible. A chronicle of a painful struggle, a gallery of terribly human portraits: the true story of an infernal construction site, colored with a good dose of dark humor!

Born in Toulouse in 1950, Jean-Paul Dubois is a reporter for Le Nouvel Observateur. He won the Grand Prix de l'humour noir in 1991 for Vous aurez de mes nouvelles, the Prix France Télévisions in 1996 for Kennedy et moi, and the Prix Femina in 2004 for Une vie française. All his novels are available in Points editions.

"A text of public utility... Its bursts of laughter are as brilliant as they are cutting." Télérama