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by Tonino Benacquista (Author), Adriana Hunter (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 285 pages
  • Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press (1 Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1904738125
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904738121
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 456,332 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The author keeps up a breathless pace, touching effortlessly on identity, love, alcohol, old age, the cynicism of the business world, friendship. A great novel that would make a great film' Les Echos Someone Else won the literary prize RTL-Lire in 2002. 'A high-wire act that plays hide and seek with appearances. Benacquista is a wonderful novelist. A book to be celebrated.' Le Point 'Impeccable writing, tight rhythm, the novel offers a fresh view of the ruthless corporate world, identity and voyeurism. Humour, tenderness, despair: without doubt Benacquista's best.' L'Express


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Who hasn't wanted to become 'someone else'? The person you've always wanted to be...the person who hadn't given up half way to your dreams and desires? One evening at a bar two men who have just met at their tennis club in Paris conclude that it is time to change their lives and decide to meet again in three years time to see whose transformation is the more radical. Thierry is a picture framer with a steady clientele, but he has always wanted to be a private investigator. Nicolas is a shy teetotal executive trying not to fall off the corporate ladder. But becoming another is not without risk; at the very least the risk of finding yourself. A helter-skelter tale of humour and suspense.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, 30 Jan 2006
By Donaldo "Book lover" (Manchester, England) - See all my reviews
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Two men meet in a Tennis club in Paris. After a game and a few drinks, they decide to challenge each other to 'change' who they are, and adopt a new identity. They will meet each other in three years time, with their new identity. As a concept, this in intriguing. I don't quite feel the blurb on the book explains it too well - one of the characters undegoes the complete identity change, the other just seems to find his solution in alcohol changing his shy, anxious outlook on life.
Of the one who undergoes the complete make-over as it were: he gives up his job as a framer to become a PI. He leaves his wife without warning, gets plastic surgery to change his appearance, and starts his new life. He even turns up at his own remembrance service two years after his disapearance, unnoticed. The alcoholic is previously tee-total and works in some soulless corporate job. When he starts drinking he meets and exciting beautiful woman and starts a relationship with him; he also find success in work as he just tells people what he thinks. He also invents a 'trickpack' which is a soft drinks can cut out to hide a can of alcohol - the patent to this makes him a millionaire. The first man changes himself physically, the second cerebrally.

The book is interesting, but doesn't quite hang together. The alcoholic seemd magically transformed by the alcohol, but without suffering any side-effects such as vomiting, agonising hangovers, etc. He is sympathetic though, which is more than can be said for the other character, who you just can't warm to at all. By leaving his wife, job, friends, everything, he doesn't seem to gain anything in particular. Could he not have just changed job, had plastic surgery, but still stayed with his wife? The motivation just doesn't make sense, and feels like a whim. Such amoral, callous behaviour for no obvious gain seems pointless. If he got run down by a car on page 30, I would have thought he deserved it. It becomes interesting towards the end when he appears as a voyuer at his own remembrance party - speaking to the people he used to know without them knowing who he was. But this appears too late in the book really - until then you couldn't care less if he lived or died.

But for something a bit different to read, worth a look in
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