In this surprising, funny and intensely moving new novel, Victor Joyeux, a concrete engineer in his middle years, has decided to end his life, in a way befitting a man of his profession -- by driving his car into a concrete viaduct of his own design, the irony of which pleases him enormously.
Why has he chosen to end his life? That is the question; and The End is Victor's answer, a self-portrait of one man's rich and colourful life and times as he plans his demise...
from the dust cover flap.
In this surprising, funny and intensely moving new novel, Victor Joyeux, a concrete engineer in his middle years, has decided to end his life, in a way befitting a man of his profession -- by driving his car into a concrete viaduct of his own design, the irony of which pleases him enormously.
Why has he chosen to end his life? That is the question; and The End is Victor's answer, a self-portrait of one man's rich and colourful life and times as he plans his demise...
from the dust cover flap.