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Big Blondes (New Press International Fiction) Hardcover – June 1, 1997

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  • Series: New Press International Fiction
  • Hardcover: 201 pages
  • Publisher: The New Press; First Edition edition (June 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1565843401
  • ISBN-13: 978-1565843400
  • Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6 x 8.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars"He isn't convinced that dragging someone onto a TV screen is such an innocent maneuver."
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At least superficially, this 1995 novel (in an excellent translation by Mark Polizzotti) involves the herculean effort by a made-for-TV studio, Stochastic Films, to recruit an aging minor celebrity/singer, Gloria Stella (aka Gloire Abgrall) for a "where-are-they-now" series, Tall Blondes (aka Big Blondes). Gloire, living a life resembling a witness protection program, resists this intrusion by resorting to violence and flight, taking the story from Paris to Sydney to Bombay, and elsewhere. In pursuit of its prey, Stochastic blackmails police, employs a string of private investigators of increasing competence and cost, and collaborates with an international crime syndicate. Gloire veers in and out of mental stability, evidenced by sudden apparitions and disappearances of an homunculus adviser, Beliard, who, if there is any justice in the world, will be played by a miniaturized David Sedaris in the movie version. The result, in usual Echenoz fashion, is a fun and wild ride, but there is more to it than that.

Echenoz is capable of brilliant, often hilarious description. He employes this talent more modestly in Big Blondes than in the even wilder and quirkier Cherokee. Big Blondes also has more satiric ambition than "Cherokee." Echenoz captures perfectly French male obsessions and attitudes that somehow manages to be incredibly sexist and, at the same time, oddly feminist. He explores the idea of beauty as power, but, more importantly, the struggle for control over female power and the power of celebrity.Read more ›
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