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Name: The Waitress Was New

Author: Dominique Fabre
Year: 2005
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Popularity: 1.2
Genres/categories: Fiction
Culture: France

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ISBN:
9780977857692
0977857697
Pierre is a veteran bartender in a cafe 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 cafe 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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