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Three Bedrooms in Manhattan
  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241461563
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $32.99
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Three Bedrooms in Manhattan

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30 July 2020
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20 Oct 2020
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A compulsive novel from one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century

A recently divorced actor and a no less lonely woman meet by chance in a New York diner. The city - its bars, its cheap motels and its rented rooms - becomes the cinematic setting of the couple's escalating and mysterious relationship. A move against desperation and drift, their affair nevertheless glows with an urgent and compulsive romance.

Georges Simenon was one of the most popular twentieth-century novelists. Three Bedrooms in Manhattan - closely based on the story of his own meeting with his second wife - is his most passionate and revealing work.
  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241461563
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Georges Simenon

One of the twentieth century’s most prolific writers and several times a candidate for the Nobel Prize, GEORGES SIMENON (1903–1989) published more than two hundred novels, seventy-five of them featuring his celebrated detective, Commissaire Maigret.
portrait photo of Georges Simenon

Also by Georges Simenon

The Shadow Puppet
Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses
The Widow Couderc
Maigret and the Headless Corpse
Maigret's Revolver
A Crime in Holland
Maigret in New York
See all

Praise for Three Bedrooms in Manhattan

One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories

Guardian

A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness

Independent

Intense and atmospheric . . . Simenon brilliantly and sparely recreates the New York of the time - the all-night diners, the sleazy bars, cheap hotels and threadbare apartments.

Richard Hopton