Tonino Benacquista 
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Praise for Holy Smoke, the first in the Antoine series:

“A terrific black comedy …both a blasphemously funny satire of provincial Italian chicanery and a wry acknowledgment of the ambivalence that ambitious immigrants feel about their roots.”—The New York Times

“Unexpected deadly demands made in the name of friendship inspire the plot of this quirky mystery novel. Irreverently inveighs against romantic love, cancer and the Paris suburbs.”—The Washington Post

“An iconoclastic chronicle of small-time crooks and desperate capers, with added Gallic and Italian flair. Wonderful fun.”—Guardian

Antoine, a fanatic billiards player, is asked to watch over a Paris art gallery. When he scuffles with a thief a statue falls and severs his right hand. His maverick investigation leads to the discovery of a series of gruesome killings. Soon Antoine finds himself the prime suspect in the murder of a gallery owner. A game of billiards decides the outcome of this satirical tale which brilliantly captures the world of modern art and the parasites that infest it.

After being, in turn, a museum night-watchman, and a train guard on the Paris-Rome line, Tonino Benacquista is now a highly successful author of fiction and film scripts.

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Benacquista, born in France of Italian immigrants, dropped out of film studies to finance his writing career. After being a museum night watchman, a train guard and a parasite on the Paris gallery opening and cocktail circuit, he is now a successful author and screenwriter. Her work includes Catherine Millet’s explicit autobiography, ‘The sexual life of Catherine M’ and Beigbeder’s attack novel on advertising, ‘£9.99’.She also translated ‘Death in the Dordogne’ by Louis Sanders recently favourably reviewed by the NYT.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9781908524140 ● File size 0.5 MB ● Translator Adriana Hunter ● Publisher Bitter Lemon Press ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2528228 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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