Date 20 August 2025
Pages 147
Format cm 14 x 22
Price € 18.00
EAN 9782080469151

Bad Sport

Author Victor Jestin
Publisher Flammarion
COLLECTION Littérature française
Keywords Guilt - Escape - Addiction
Play: that which fades with the end of childhood and manifests itself differently in adulthood.

"Up till now, I'd quit playing." One night Maud, a young woman with a well-ordered existence, causes an accident and takes to her heels. Panicking, she takes refuge in a bowling alley. For the next three days, she's on the lam, feeling a mixture of guilt an an irrepressible desire to play. From the outskirts of Saint-Nazaire to her childhood village, Maud flees and searches for herself in equal measure. After La Chaleur [Heat] and L’Homme qui danse [The Dancing Man], Victor Jestin explores, at breakneck pace, the a woman's struggle against a unique addiction.