[crime-thriller] Exit by Nelly Arcan EPUB

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Somewhere in Montréal, in the not too distant future, an obscure company offers custom-designed suicides for its clients with one their desire to die must be pure and absolute. Antoinette Beauchamp is a successful candidate but her suicide is not. Now a bedridden paraplegic, hooked up to machines that monitor all her bodily functions. she tells her story, taking the reader into the Kafkaesque world of the company and its bewildering cast of characters.

Exit is at once a profound examination of what it is that drives someone to want to end their life, as well as how that urge can be turned on its head against all odds. Written with her signature brio and acerbic wit, Nelly Arcan's last novel is a hymn to life.

Exit was completed only days before Arcan took her own life in 2009 at the age of thirty-six.

"A work of originality pushed to the limit. It's crazy. Full of imagination. Even funny at times. A story unlike any other." —Danielle Laurin, Le Devoir

"Her writing will grab you and pull you into a fabulous world." —Benoît Aubin, Le Journal de Québec
In this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the tortured end of a love affair. All the wrong signals were there from the start, but still, she could not help falling. More than a portrait of an affair gone wrong, Hysteric is a chronicle of life among the twenty- and thirty-somethings, a life structured by text messages, missed cell phone calls, the latest DJs and Internet porn. When the writer’s aunt read her tarot cards, no predictions for her future ever appeared. This tale, an astounding feat of literary realism, shares the story of a woman who loses her identity in a man in hopes of finding love. Told in the same voice that made her first novel Whore an international success, Nelly Arcan manages to answer the challenges she set down for herself in her previous books.

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