Emmanuelle Lambert digs up family photographs in new rentrée novel
In "La meilleure," reviewed by En attendant Nadeau, the writer builds a book of friendship out of old snapshots, avoiding the usual pitfalls of memoir.
Emmanuelle Lambert's new novel, "La meilleure," is part of this year's rentrée littéraire. According to En attendant Nadeau, the book draws on a handful of family photographs, which Lambert uses as material for a meditation on friendship.
The review praises the way Lambert handles this personal material without slipping into cliché, describing the result as a book marked by sensitivity and humor. En attendant Nadeau calls it, in its own assessment, a fine book about friendship.
No further details on plot, length or publisher were given in the source material.
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