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The Little Girl and the Cigarette|Duteurtre, Benoit

The Little Girl and the Cigarette

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A wicked satire about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything.

In the over-legislated world of this outrageous black comedy, a death-row inmate becomes a darling of the media-- and the tobacco conglomerates--after he demands his right to a final cigarette . . . in a smoke-free prison. Meanwhile, a little girl accuses a petty municipal bureaucrat of sexual perversion when she catches him sneaking a cigarette. Incredulously, he realizes that in this world where children are not just kings, but tyrants, a cigarette could lead him to the electric chair.

At the cutting edge of European fiction, controversial author Benoît Duteurtre creates a world wildly askew, yet disconcertingly close to our own, in this daring, antic satire.




From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • ISBN: 9781612190976
  • Publisher: Melville House
  • Imprint: Melville House
  • Date: Dec 2035
  • Seller Statement: Sold by Random House WHS

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