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  Hunting and Gathering

 
Hunting and Gathering
Author:    Anna Gavalda
ISBN:    9780099494072
ISBN-10:    0099494078
Publisher:    Random House Publishers
Date Published:    7/06/2007
Format:    Paperback Book
Pages:    480
Language:    English
RRP: $19.95
PRICE: $18.75
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Book Description:
Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Philibert Marquet de La Durbelliere is a stammering, erudite aristocrat who sells postcards outside a museum. One evening he overcomes his own excruciating reticence to rescue Camille, unconscious, from her freezing garret, and install her in the large, ornate apartment he is caretaking downstairs. He already has an unlikely flatmate, the foul-mouthed, talented working-class young chef, Franck, who is made more obnoxious by guilt about the beloved grandmother he's had to put in a home. Together, this curious, damaged little quartet may be able to face the world. Gorgeously original, full of wry humour and razor-sharp observation, redolent of Paris, its foibles, its food and its neglected corners, "Hunting and Gathering" is a universal story about despair, love and the virtues of ensemble-playing in a naughty world. It's a big novel that you will not want to put down.


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Category: Fiction - General
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Review by Bec and Janine 
Hunting and Gathering brings together four unlikely housemates in a story that will warm your heart.

Camille, Philibert, Franck and Paulette are all reluctant to connect with the world around them and are each rapidly losing hope that there is anything worthwhile in store.

Brought together by an odd series of coincidences, some rather harrowing living conditions, and a lot of kindness, what begins as a convenience becomes a family.

This book will touch you with its warmth and inspire you with its creativity.

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