The Neon Halo: The Face Of The Future
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st english translation
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A work of mid-twentieth-century French literary fiction, The Neon Halo by Jean-Louis Curtis presents a sharp and satirical portrait of postwar French society, dissecting the moral ambiguities and social hypocrisies that flourished beneath a veneer of bourgeois respectability. Curtis, a Prix Goncourt-winning author celebrated for his incisive wit and psychological acuity, illustrates the tensions between tradition and modernity through characters navigating a world reshaped by war and rapid cultural change. The narrative unfolds with an ironic, observational tone that is at once elegant and cutting, holding its subjects up to scrutiny without sentimentality. Readers drawn to the European literary tradition of social critique — reminiscent of works by Françoise Sagan or Evelyn Waugh — will find in Curtis a masterful chronicler of human vanity and self-deception.
Author: Jean-Louis Curtis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Secker & Warburg
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st english translation
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A work of mid-twentieth-century French literary fiction, The Neon Halo by Jean-Louis Curtis presents a sharp and satirical portrait of postwar French society, dissecting the moral ambiguities and social hypocrisies that flourished beneath a veneer of bourgeois respectability. Curtis, a Prix Goncourt-winning author celebrated for his incisive wit and psychological acuity, illustrates the tensions between tradition and modernity through characters navigating a world reshaped by war and rapid cultural change. The narrative unfolds with an ironic, observational tone that is at once elegant and cutting, holding its subjects up to scrutiny without sentimentality. Readers drawn to the European literary tradition of social critique — reminiscent of works by Françoise Sagan or Evelyn Waugh — will find in Curtis a masterful chronicler of human vanity and self-deception.