Antoine Bello
Author of Les falsificateurs
About the Author
Born in Boston to French parents, Antoine Bello lives in New York. The Missing Piece, which was first runner up for France's prestigious Prix Novembre in 1998, is his first novel
Image credit: Antoine Bello en 2015
Series
Works by Antoine Bello
Legends 1 copy
Οι παραχαράκτες 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Bello, Antoine
- Legal name
- Bello, Antoine
- Birthdate
- 1970-03-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
USA - Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Hautes Etudes Commerciales (1991)
- Relationships
- Aymé, Marcel (Arrière-gran-oncle)
- Organizations
- Ubiqus, Entreprise de prestations linguistiques (Fondateur, 19 91)
Members
Reviews
Bof. deçu. interessant synopsis mais beaucoup de longueurs, manque de punch, un peu scolaire., long development sur les bushmans, franchement ennuyeux.
(#29 in the 2006 book challenge)
This is a mystery that's set in the near future, in a time when jigsaw puzzle solving has become a tournament sport with heavy media coverage (not unlike the current situation where you can see poker on cable every night), and it's told in an epistolary format, with every chapter being a letter or a news clipping and they're all out of chronological order. Get it? If you put the information from the chapters together correctly, you solve the puzzle. This isn't a bad book exactly, but it feels like the author was overreaching a bit and got too caught up in the structure of the thing and the story suffers as a result.
Grade: B-
Recommended: Probably not, unless you are a crazed fan of jigsaw puzzles and would get a kick out of a book about them.… (more)
This is a mystery that's set in the near future, in a time when jigsaw puzzle solving has become a tournament sport with heavy media coverage (not unlike the current situation where you can see poker on cable every night), and it's told in an epistolary format, with every chapter being a letter or a news clipping and they're all out of chronological order. Get it? If you put the information from the chapters together correctly, you solve the puzzle. This isn't a bad book exactly, but it feels like the author was overreaching a bit and got too caught up in the structure of the thing and the story suffers as a result.
Grade: B-
Recommended: Probably not, unless you are a crazed fan of jigsaw puzzles and would get a kick out of a book about them.… (more)
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Statistics
- Works
- 19
- Members
- 505
- Popularity
- #49,063
- Rating
- 3.5
- Reviews
- 26
- ISBNs
- 57
- Languages
- 8
Mais l'ensemble ne tient pas très bien debout. Les trop nombreuses références à Agatha Christie gâchent la lecture sans y apporter beaucoup (pour ceux que la théorie du roman policier intéresse, lire plutôt qui a tué Roger Ackroyd de Pierre Bayard). Et surtout, l'intrigue s'enlise jusqu'à la non-fin. Ce qui se présente comme un roman policier devient alors une réflexion supposément moderne et plutôt morne sur le crime parfait.… (more)