by Alphonse Boudard · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782080663658
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«Saint Frédo» is a novel by Alphonse Boudard, published by Flammarion in paperback in 1993 (269 pages, in French).
After years apart, an established writer and Frédo, a former prison companion, meet again. Frédo insists he has changed his life and aims to prove it; the narrator accompanies him and recounts with humor and slang how this hustler ends up as the patron saint of rogues, prostitutes and criminals.
The cover bears the subtitle «Roman»; the Library of Congress records the work under the call number PQ2662.O74 S35 1993.
Appeals to readers of French fiction who appreciate humor, popular language and redemption stories.
Alphonse Boudard was a French novelist and playwright. He won the 1977 Prix Renaudot for Les Combattants du petit bonheur. Boudard's 1995 novel Dying childhood was awarded and recognised by the French Academy with a Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.
