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Rough Trade (Paperback)
Dominique Manotti; Translated by Elfreda Powell, Margaret Crosland
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This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly along dark paths of
sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris's rag trade. One
spring morning a Thai girl is found dead in a fashion workshop.
Another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? A club is
uncovered where people secretly get filmed having sex - including
some very distinguished men. This is the seedy underworld of Paris
- the traffic in heroin, illegal immigrants without work permits,
police officers' secret lives. A Turkish man - a police informer
and leader of exploited immigrants rag-trader workers - is also
Police Inspector Danquin's lover. This is a gripping morality tale
of twentieth-century Paris. Dominique Manotti teaches
nineteenth-century Economic History. "Rough Trade", her first
novel, was awarded the top prize for the best thriller of the year
by the French Crime Writers Association.
This selection of Margaret Crosland's poetry shows her to be worthy
of a place among that small circle of English women poets of
unassertive but authentic accomplishment--poets like Sylvia
Townsend Warner, Ruth Pitter, and Anne Ridler--and like them she
has her own quietly distinctive voice. Her poetry is honest,
unobtrusively learned, and unpretentious. The title of this book
comes from the author's observation that life consists of little
else: we meet people, places, jobs, ideas, but they are rarely
there forever, there is always a parting, or at least a development
in some way. This new collection contains both old favorites,
revised for this volume, and new poems.
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