The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet, translated from French by Richard Howard, with an excellent Peter Mendelsund cover / ISBN 9780802128768 / 246-page paperback from Grove Press / discounted copies but in nice condition, just some wear minor shelf wear

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One of Robbe-Grillet’s most important works and winner of the 1955 Prix des Critiques, The Voyeur tells the gripping story of a thirteen-year-old girl who is found drowned and mutilated. Suspicion surrounds Mathias, a reclusive traveling salesman, and as the circumstances are eerily recreated through the eyes of the suspected killer, the reader is drawn into a haunting mystery. Writing with eerie precision but nonetheless flouting the established rules of fiction, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes us inside the mind of an unreliable narrator penned by an unreliable author.