Class Trip & The Mustache [Paperback]

La Moustache--now a film directed by Emmanuel Carr?re

What would you say if I shaved off my mustache? asksThe Mustache's hero of his wife. Once removed, his wife and friends not only fail to recognize him, but deny the existence of the former mustache altogether. A metaphysical nightmare of the grandest kind,The Mustacheis a stunning blend of absurdist comedy and philosophical speculation.

InClass Trip, young Nicholas's vivid imagination gets the best of him when a boy disappears from a school excursion. What the youthful detective finds is even more terrifying than his wildest fantasties.

Brought together in one volume, the piercing early novels of Emmanuel Carr?re constitute some of the most devastating psychological portraits in contemporary fiction.

Fine and glossy and inexorable . . . Stunning. John Updike, The New Yorker

Carr?re has written a book that is likely to ensnare anyone who starts reading it--ingenious and authentically eerie. The New York Times Book Review

His command is total, his ear is perfect The Star-Ledger (Newark)

[A] singular method of storytelling . . . [a] masterstroke. Detroit Free Press

Carr?re is a master of high-standard deviation. Spin

Emmanuel Carr?reis the author ofThe Adversary,the novelGothic Romance,and, most recently,I Am Alive and You are Dead, a biography of Philip K. Dick. He lives in Paris, France.