TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fabre, Dominique.
AU  - Stump, Jordan (tr.)
TI  - WAITRESS WAS NEW
SN  - 9780977857692 
U1  - F 
PY  - 2008////01/01
CY  - New York
PB  -  Archipelago Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Waiters
KW  - Bartenders - France - Paris - Fiction
KW  - Social life and customs - Fiction
KW  -  Bartenders
KW  - Fabre, Dominique
KW  - French writer 1960
KW  - Stump, Jordan 1959
KW  - Translater
N1  - Pierre is a veteran bartender in a café in the outskirts of Paris. He observes his customers as they come and go – the young man who drinks beer as he reads Primo Levi, the fellow who from time to time strips down and plunges into the nearby Seine, the few regulars who eat and drink there on credit – sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn’t look outside more than necessary; he prefers to let the world come to him. Soon, however, the café must close its doors, and Pierre finds himself at a loss. As we follow his stream of thoughts over three days, Pierre’s humanity and profound solitude both emerge. The Waitress Was New is a moving portrait of human anguish and weakness, of understated nobility and strength. Lire est un plaisir describes Dominique Fabre as a “magician of the everyday.”
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