November [Paperback]

Novembermay be said to have four protagonists: a group of night-shift workers in Southeast France; their friends, relatives, lovers, acquaintances; the factory in which they work; the work itself. The focus is on two and a half hours during one evening in November 1976 and the plastic die-casting workshop where the men are employed. Staggering in scope, November is a virtuoso performance???a contemporary take on the classical modernist novel, anatomizing the ways we live, think, and labor: what we've lost, and what we're losing. The novel???whose sequel is in process???is reminiscent at points of Jean Eustache???s 1973 film The Mother and the Whore: complex, deep, and seemingly unending. -Kirkus Reviews Each man, vividly etched and dramatised in the novel???s first book, is developed both immanently and contrastively as the novel proceeds. Each character is in principle as interesting, creatively inconsistent and elusive as any person met in flesh and blood, so that the more you enquire and explore the more you discover. Rewarding. -Kirkus Reviews