Three Days with My Mother

François Weyergans · 2005 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

A blocked novelist, Weyergraf, repeatedly fails to visit his ninety-year-old mother and fails equally to write the book he owes his publisher. His excuses spill into digressions on cinema, women, Paris and the guilt of sons. A novel about not writing a novel, which won the Goncourt.

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