Distinguished by the same charm and playful prose thathelped make The Mystery Guest such a cult favoritewith readers and reviewers, Report on Myself is the memoirthat won Gregoire Bouillier the French Prix de Flore anduniversal acclaim.Here, Bouillier tells the whole crazy story of his life,from his conception in wartime Algeria to his gritty Parisianboyhood at the mercy of his working-class bohemian parents.With trademark pithy vignettes, he illuminates his lifethrough the stories of his four loves, beginning at age ninewith the bourgeois Marie-Blanche, younger sister of his bestfriend, and ending with the relationship that nearlydestroyed him, the aftermath of which he chronicled to suchgreat effect in The Mystery Guest.Shot through with indelible images, bad puns, andBouillier's gift for drawing meaning from the seeminglyinnocuous coincidences of daily life, Report on Myself turnson a literary revelation (in this case, The Odyssey) that helpsGregoire decode the patterns laid out by...

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