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Audrey Escoin, blogger and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends
Au long des jours
by Nathalie Rheims, published on January 11, 2022 by Éditions Léo Scheer.
His favorite quote:
By becoming a singer, I lost the taste for happiness.
Why this book?
Because a simple photo brings back memories,
it gives this novel by Nathalie Rheims, in which she tells us about her meeting and a year of passion with the man we see on the cover of the book.
This is the singer Mouloudji even if I admit that I did not know this face, question of generation.
Because she's just 18, he's 55,
and yet when they meet, she's an actress, he likes her, she's in love.
Looks, furtive encounters, a few nights, waiting for reunions, confessions.
This is what she shares with him.
Above all, do not show yourself too much, the jealous, the official, watch.
Nathalie from the very first moment promises herself to keep it hidden, it's her own secret.
Because at the same time as she talks to us about this love,
this passion, it's a little about him that she talks about.
From his childhood, the books he wrote, his desires, his songs.
Then from her, a little less.
We are with them, but also with Nougaro, Prévert, Brassens, Le Poulain.
We are at the end of the 1970s, in Paris, at the Flore.
Between recital and theater scene, girl's room and alley restaurant.
A book that makes us sing and hum many tunes.
Because she never quotes the man she's talking about,
she doesn't say his name.
As a final gesture of respect, she had promised to be discreet.
But it is easy to guess from the titles of the songs cited who it is.
I liked the sobriety with which she tells this love story, with restraint, modesty and yet with a lot of sincerity and passion.
Nathalie Rheims thus opens up a page of her intimacy, a period in her life as a young woman, intense and exciting months, showing all the esteem she has for this man.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
The story of a passionate love between Nathalie Rheims, a very young 18-year-old woman and an older man, a charming and fascinating singer.
Characters.
Nathalie Rheims and her love.
His father, his sister, the theater colleagues.
The singer's official.
Brassens, Nougaro, Barbara, Jean le Poulain, etc., etc.
Places.
Paris, the flora cafe.
Her girl's room.
The theatre, the stages, the cafes, the beds.
The time.
1977.
The author.
Nathalie Rheims is a French writer and producer.
Throughout the days is his 23rd book.
This book was read with
interest for this singer that I did not know and caught up in this forbidden and passionate love story.
A very nice text.
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