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The Man on the Bench in the Barn is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The original French version La Main ("The Hand") appeared in 1968.

The Man on the Bench in the Barn is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The novel is among his romans durs, a term roughly translated as hard, or harrowing, novels; it was used by Simenon for what he regarded as his serious literary works. In 2016, this novel was reissued in English under the title The Hand, newly translated by Linda Coverdale (. ISBN 9780241284650).

Georges Simenon’s laser vision of one man stepping out of his social roles as husband, father, successful professional . Its powerful atmosphere was drawn from Simenon’s own period of residence in Connecticut in the late 1940s.

Georges Simenon’s laser vision of one man stepping out of his social roles as husband, father, successful professional, upstanding community member to confront the stark realities of his existence. A gripping existential tale not to be missed. If I try to define my state as accurately as possible, I'd say that I possessed a warped lucidity. Reality existed around me, and I was in contact with it. I was aware of my actions. In the book, the town he then lived in, Lakeville, is renamed Brentwood. His house, Shadow Rock Farm, becomes fictionally Yellow Rock Farm.

Simenon, Georges, 1903-. A Helen and Kurt Wolff book. Translation of La main.

Georges Simenon was born on 12 February 1903 in Liège, Belgium, and died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for . The man had been stabbed in the back – that much was clear – about ten paces into the alleyway

Georges Simenon was born on 12 February 1903 in Liège, Belgium, and died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. Between 1931 and 1972 he published seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories featuring Inspector Maigret. The man had been stabbed in the back – that much was clear – about ten paces into the alleyway. Someone had followed him without a sound, and the passers-by on the main street had been completely oblivious to what was happening.

Published by Harcourt, New York, 1970. List this Seller's Books. From Mordida Books (Houston, TX, .

Original title In the novel, a man's life is changed when, instead of looking for his friend lost in . .

The novel is set in Connecticut, USA. Simenon lived in America from 1945 to 1955; from 1950 he lived at Shadow Rock Farm in Lakeville, Connecticut In the novel, a man's life is changed when, instead of looking for his friend lost in a blizzard, he sits on a bench in a barn next to his house and smokes cigarettes; later, he has an affair with his friend's widow, all the while wondering what his wife is thinking about him. Summary. The narrator is Donald Dodd.

Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian. Books related to Maigret and the Man on the Bench. unforgettable vividness' Independent.

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