I'm Gone: A Novel

I'm Gone: A Novel

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<B>Winner of the 1999 Prix Goncourt</B>. The #1 bestselling, Goncourt Prize-winning "best of Echenoz's novels" (<I>Le Figaro</I>). Jean Echenoz's I'm Gone won the prestigious Goncourt Prize in France and continues to top bestseller lists with half a million copies in print. <I>Le Monde</I> calls it "an adventure story that is also an adventure to read." The hero of <I>I'm Gone</I> is an urbane Parisian art dealer who walks out on his wife and life to join a treasure-hunting expedition to the Arctic, and soon finds himself caught up in a theft. Echenoz's brilliant narrative--a suspenseful crime caper, a bitingly humorous look at the uncertainties of love at mid-life, and a witty, satirical foray into corruption in the art market all rolled into one--reveals why he has come to be known as "the most distinctive voice of his generation, . . . the master magician of the contemporary French novel" (<I>The Washington Post</I>). Past winner of the Prix Medicis and the European Literature Prize, Echenoz is "in top form" here, according to the <I>Journal de Dimanche</I>, which calls <I>I'm Gone</I> "sheer perfection."