The Clockmaker

Georges Simenon

124 pages, Paperback

ISBN: 0156181703

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Language: English

Publish: January 1, 1977

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The acclaimed French film The Clockmaker was based on this affecting study of a father and his teenage son, turned murderer.
Dave Galloway owns a jeweler’s shop in a village in New York State. Deserted by his wife, he has raised his son, Ben, from infancy. He believes he has been a good father; and Ben, now sixteen, has never caused him any trouble. When news of the manhunt for his runaway son reaches him, Galloway begins the painful search for understanding. He finds the key in rebellions of the past – his own and his father’s before him.

La fugue, la délinquance, le meurtre : en quelques jours, pour une amourette avec une fille de son âge, Ben Galloway, à seize ans, a commis l’irréparable. C’est dans la prison d’Indianapolis que son père, Dave, modeste horloger d’un village de l’Etat de New York, le retrouve. Mais le garçon se mure dans un silence hostile que n’entameront ni le procès, ni la condamnation à la prison perpétuelle. Comment, pourquoi cet enfant qu’il a élevé seul sa mère les a quittés quand il avait six mois – a-t-il pu devenir à ce point un étranger ? Qu’adviendra-t-il de l’enfant qui va naître de la brève union de Ben et de Lillian ?

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