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An actor, recently divorced, at loose ends in New York; a woman, no less lonely, perhaps even more desperate than the man: they meet by chance in an all-night diner and are drawn to each other on the spot. Roaming the city streets, hitting its late-night dives, dropping another coin into yet another jukebox, these two lost souls struggle to understand what it is that has brought them, almost in spite of themselves, together. They are driven—from moment to moment, from bedroom to bedroom—to improvise the most unexpected of love stories, a tale of suspense where risk alone offers salvation.
Georges Simenon was the most popular and prolific of the twentieth century's great novelists. Three Bedrooms in Manhattan—closely based on the story of his own meeting with his second wife—is his most passionate and revealing work.
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Heather Canty
reviewed Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (New York Review Books Classics Series) on December 31, 2016
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (New York Review Books Classics Series)
On this chilly October morning, he was a man who had cut all the threads, a man approaching fifty, without ties to anything'not to family, profession, country, himself, and definitely not to a home. His only connection was to a complete stranger, a woman sleeping in his room in a seedy hotel.
It's not a great reading, it's not even original one yet somewhat managed to get under my skin. Story about Francois, middle-aged, recently divorced actor who just landed in New York. And Kay, similarly lost and lonely. Everything feels banal, their chance encounter in the night bar, nocturnal wanderings through deserted streets, drinking, smoking cigarettes, anonimous hotel rooms. Even their loneliness and desperate seeking love. Simenon's style is rather unpolished and clipped, dialogues strangely awkward and clumsy. Everything seems to scream cliché yet still I wished them happy ending.
Initially Simenon is quite brutal in this naked directness; no one pretends this is something more than casual meeting for fucking, François doesn't even consider Kay to be beautiful or appealing. I thought Simenon quite aptly conveyed that specific aura of indifference and hopelessness, this shared solitude, impersonality of human interactions, that he conjured very atmospheric portrait of the big city and its adrift inhabitants. Only later the novel slightly veers towards sentimentality. I liked Simenon in his noir, psychological scene better but since I wished our loners luck I can't now whine too much about, right ? Hope for happiness is not such a bad thing after all.
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