{"product_id":"the-mystery-guest-a-true-story-paperback","title":"The Mystery Guest: A True Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGrégoire Bouillier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBen Truman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"frank and wry, mad and graceful\" true story about getting dumped, and getting over it. (\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, Best Books of the Year)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that the caller was the woman who had left him, without warning, five years before. And he couldn't have guessed why she was calling: not to say she was sorry, not to explain why she'd vanished from his life, but to invite him to a party. A birthday party. For a woman he'd never met.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here is the unlikely but true account of how one man got over a poken heart, regained his faith in literature, participated--by mistake--in a work of performance art, threw away his turtlenecks, spent his rent money on a 1964 bordeaux that nobody ever drank, and fell in love again. Named one of the year's best books by \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e when it first appeared in English, \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery Guest\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"sad, funny and vivid\" memoir that \"gives shape to the painful yet somehow hilarious disjunction that is the residue of a shattered love affair.\" (--Erica Wagner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrégoire Bouillier\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, and raised in Paris. A former editor of the magazine Science et Vie, he is the author of four works of autobiography, incluidng \u003ci\u003eReport on Myself\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLe Dossier M\u003c\/i\u003e. Having worked as a painter and journalist, he published his first memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery Guest\u003c\/i\u003e, when he wa\u003ci\u003es\u003c\/i\u003e forty years old. \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA London native, \u003cb\u003eBen Truman\u003c\/b\u003e lives in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheila Heti\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten books, including the novels \u003ci\u003ePure Colour, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMotherhood, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eHow Should a Person Be? \u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 104\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 21, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52467357548851,"sku":"9781961341050","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/46jCu0vgCx9781961341050.webp?v=1759330453","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-mystery-guest-a-true-story-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}