A whimsical, hurly-burly quasi-autobiographical love romp from the master of operatic intellectual romance! Jacques Dutronc, a French pop star, is a brilliant computer programmer diagnosed with a terminal brain disease, and Sophie Marceau is the flighty main attraction of a hilariously surreal mentalist nightclub act. They embark on a billowy, tempestuous May-September fling, mirroring Zulawski and Marceau's own marriage, as they both work through their respective childhood traumas while racing to keep Lucas' grasp of language. My Nights... is a pastel-and-neon poetic feast that astounds with its lush wordplay— for the only way Lucas is able to progressively battle his own evaporating mind is to speak with increasingly rhyming and metaphorical flourishes, until the entire world becomes one big sweet-toothed, Zulawskian word-association game.
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A whimsical, hurly-burly quasi-autobiographical love romp from the master of operatic intellectual romance! Jacques Dutronc, a French pop star, is a brilliant computer programmer diagnosed with a terminal brain disease, and Sophie Marceau is the flighty main attraction of a hilariously surreal mentalist nightclub act. They embark on a billowy, tempestuous May-September fling, mirroring Zulawski and Marceau's own marriage, as they both work through their respective childhood traumas while racing to keep Lucas' grasp of language. My Nights... is a pastel-and-neon poetic feast that astounds with its lush wordplay— for the only way Lucas is able to progressively battle his own evaporating mind is to speak with increasingly rhyming and metaphorical flourishes, until the entire world becomes one big sweet-toothed, Zulawskian word-association game.
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