Uncle Charles has locked himself in
By: Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Howard Curtis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1987
Place of publication: San Diego, USA
Language: eng; fre
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Oncle Charles s'est enfermé
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 150
Copyright date: 1987
Work titles: Oncle Charles s'est enfermé
Description: Charles Dupeux, a humble book-keeper, comes home from work as usual but instead of sitting down to dinner, he locks himself in the attic. Precise details are given of the seedy, prosaic, unsentimental world of the French suburbs in this tale of "human suffering and depravity."
Notes: "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."