num_pages: 80
description: A train compartment. A man and a woman. In a series of dazzling internal monologues, the man, a novelist, muses on his latest work, and considers life and the futility of writing. The woman thinks of her life in the full knowledge that the man she is facing is the novelist she admires and whose latest work she has tucked in her handbag.
language: English
title: The Unexpected Man
titlecomplete: The Unexpected Man
genres: Drama, Plays, France, French Literature, Fiction, Theatre
ratings_count: 227
publisher: Faber & Faber