Compact

by Maurice Roche

Maurice Roche has been called "the most interesting novelist in France" (TriQuarterly), and Compact "one of the classics of our modernity" (Le Figaro). Certainly, Compact is one of the most compellingly original works of fiction of the postwar period. Composed--as if a musical score--of six intertwining narratives (each distinguished by its own voice, tense, and typeface), Compact has lost none of its remarkable freshness or groundbreaking innovation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916583295
• ISBN13: 9780916583293
• Release Date: October 1988
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"