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Title: The Alphonse Courrier Affair (Panther S.) by Marta Morazzoni, Emma Rose ISBN: 1-86046-944-2 Publisher: The Harvill Press Pub. Date: 06 September, 2001 Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: Another low-key success
Comment: Morazzoni again crafts prose exquisitely - only slightly less skilled than in The Invention of Truth. This story is told in the casual voice of a village narrator a generation later than the events described. The casual organization and short digressions carefully support the villager image of the narrator. The "affair" which serves as plot is a complex of human relationships: an iron-monger for whom the novel is named, a somewhat older veterinarian who is a friend of the entire family, a neighbor girl infatuated with the iron-monger, the publically presentable wife, the ugly mistress, the gossiping butcher's wife ... the relationships reflect the complexity of real life which support the plot without being simplified. The conclusion may surprise some readers, others will predict it as the only possible consequence of the events which precede.

I have yet to be disappointed by Marta Morazzoni; I encourage others to delight in her prose.