Title: L'écume des jours
Title Record # 1768374
Author: Boris Vian
Date: 1947-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN, Wikipedia-FR
Language: French
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Author: Boris Vian
Date: 1947-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN, Wikipedia-FR
Language: French
Synopsis: Colin is a wealthy young man with a resourceful and stylish man-servant, Nicolas, as well as a fantastic olfactory-musical invention: the pianocktail. With dizzying speed, Colin meets and weds Chloé in a grand ceremony. Generously, Colin bequeaths a quarter of his fortune to his friends Chick and Alise so they too may marry.
Happiness should await both couples but Chloé falls ill upon her honeymoon with a water lily in the lung, a painful and rare condition that can only be treated by surrounding her with flowers. The expense is prohibitive and Colin soon exhausts his funds. Meanwhile, Chick's obsession with the philosopher, Jean-Sol Partre, causes him to spend all his money, effort and attention upon collecting Partre's literature. Alise hopes to save Chick financially and renew his interest in her by persuading Partre to stop publishing books. She kills him when he refuses and seeks revenge upon the booksellers. Colin struggles to provide flowers for Chloé to no avail and his grief at her death is so strong his pet mouse commits suicide to escape the gloom [from Wikipedia].
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Froth on the Daydream | 1967-00-00 | Boris Vian | Rapp & Carroll | 0-85391-061-8 | 25/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
221 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Lawrence Edwards | |
La espuma de los días | 1967-00-00 | Boris Vian | Pomaire (Realismo Fantástico) | 214 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Will Faber | |||
Mood Indigo | 1968-00-00 | Boris Vian | Grove Press (Evergreen #508) | 191 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||||
L'écume des jours | 1975-06-08 | Boris Vian | Rombaldi (Bibliothèque du temps présent) | 2-231-00084-9 | 249 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
L'écume des jours | 1976-07-15 | Boris Vian | 10/18?Dix/Dix-huit ( #115) |
184 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||||
A Espuma dos Dias | 1997-04-00 | Boris Vian | frenesi | 972-8351-24-0 | 206 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | |||
Foam of the Daze | 2003-11-01 | Boris Vian | TamTam Books | 0-9662346-3-4 | $18.00?$: US dollar |
vi+ 261 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Tom Recchion | |
Œuvres romanesques complètes: I | 2010-09-10 | Boris Vian | Gallimard (Bibliothèque de la Pléiade #562) | 978-2-07-011552-5 |
lxiii+ 1309 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
omni | Serge de Sazo | ||
L'écume des jours | 2013-07-00 | Boris Vian | Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche #14087) | 978-2-253-14087-0 | €6.60?€: Euro |
350 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Mood Indigo | 2014-06-24 | Boris Vian | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG Classics) | 978-0-374-53422-6 | $14.00?$: US dollar |
vii+ 214 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | Jay Shaw | |
L'écume des jours | date unknown | Boris Vian | 10/18?Dix/Dix-huit ( #115) |
F2.90?F: French frank |
184 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Roman Cieslewicz |
Reviews
- Review by André Hardellet (1964) in Fiction, #124