French novelist Delphine de Vigan, author of Based on a True Story. Starting with the ostensible "facts", D'Après une Histoire Vraie (as it is in the original) is the story of a writer suffering
Buy Based on a True Story By Delphine de Vigan. Available in used condition with free US shipping on orders over $10. ISBN: 9781408878811. ISBN-10: 140887881X Excellent In this captivating story of imprisonment … Delphine de Vigan intelligently questions the place of the writer in our society of imitation This is an addictive read. Clever, compulsive and deft. De Vigan kept me guessing to the point where I even began to question the reality of the pages in my hand. This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, meta-fictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too—even as it holds us in its thrall.
The international hit that sold half a million copies in France: a chilling work of fiction—but based on a true story—about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic and the nature of reality.Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015 Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des
An unlikely mash-up of thriller and conte philosophique, Based on a True Story insists on the author’s right to blur the lines. Asked by a Paris-Match interviewer if L existed, de Vigan replied
Based on a True Story, Gratitude, Loyalties, No and Me, Nothing Holds Back the Night, Underground Time. Biography. Delphine de Vigan is French and lives in Paris. She
By Bethanne Patrick. Published May 11, 2017 at 10:00 AM EDT. Two things, first: One, Delphine de Vigan's Based on a True Story is a powerful novel of suspense. Two, Based on a True Story may or may not be based on truth. You'll read many reviews this season about de Vigan's book that mention those things and discuss one or both at length. (4.5) I am in awe of what Delphine de Vigan has created in Nothing Holds Back the Night. It is the sister to her superb Based on a True Story, and it strikes me that the books mirror each other in interesting ways. Based on a True Story is a philosophical rumination on the craft of writing dressed up as a story of suspense. lKOhRN.
