by Sebastien Japrisot · The Harvill Press · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781860464393
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«Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun» is the suspense novel by Sebastien Japrisot, published by The Harvill Press in paperback (224 pages, in English).
In the deep south of France, Dany Longo drives a Thunderbird that isn't hers and carries a gun. Her employer has sent her on an errand whose destination and purpose she doesn't know, but she can't stop. The journey becomes a spiral of intrigue, secrets and unexpected twists that keep the tension to the last page.
English translation of the original French novel «La dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil», originally published in 1966 and winner of the Prix d'Honneur.
For readers of classic suspense and crime fiction; also for those seeking a French thriller with a female protagonist.
Sébastien Japrisot was a French author, screenwriter and film director. His pseudonym was an anagram of Jean-Baptiste Rossi, his real name. Renowned for subverting the rules of the crime genre, Japrisot broke down the established formulas "into their component pieces to re-combine them in original and paradoxical ways." Some critics argue that though Japrisot's work may lack the explicit experimental element present in the novels of some of his contemporaries, it shows influences of structuralist theories and the unorthodox techniques of the New Novelists.
