A Wild Animal
begins in the most refined way possible.
Two apparently privileged couples lead a happy life in Geneva.
As usual, Dicker applied himself, offering an impeccable description of each character and their situation, bank, law firm, police elite, nothing is missing in each portrait;
we realize that we don't come across any hunchbacks and if a disgrace appeared, it would be, let's have no doubt, to kill a bad guy.
For the author, it is a question of producing a fresco, similar to a painting by Hopper, which the reader will have the leisure to contemplate before everything deteriorates.
Because imagine that Arpad, Sophie, Greg are less peaceful than the beautiful neighborhoods where they live.
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Is it because he is Swiss that Joël Dicker has a mania for clocks?
His novel is made like a diary: “
Sunday June 12, 2022
”, “
July 2, 2:45 a.m., before the start of the robbery
”.
Dumas wrote
Twenty Years After
, Dicker wrote it more like a year, seven years or ten years earlier.
How the…
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