| ISBN |
9781408710265 (paperback) |
| Name |
Ruter, Pascal, 1966- author. |
| Title |
The last adventure of Napoleon Sunshine / Pascal Ruter ; translated by Simon Pare. |
| Published |
London : Little, Brown, 2019. |
| ©2019 |
| Description |
260 pages ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
"You're never too old to try something new..." -- Cover. |
| Summary |
At the age of eighty-five my grandfather Napoleon decided he needed to try something new . . . Everything starts to go south when Napoleon leaves his wife. At eighty-five, a former boxer with a restless, youthful spirit, Napoleon decides to say to hell with it all! He wants a new life. Determined to rebel against everything that takes the fun out of life, Napoleon embarks on a moving adventure with his ten-year-old grandson Leonard Sunshine in tow. The chaotic duo adopt a dog, drive a fake taxi, escape to the seaside, sabotage door-to-door salesmen and plot to kidnap a famous radio star. Above all, Leonard is determined to spare his grandfather the fate of the elderly--spending his final years exiled in a retirement home. |
| Language note |
Translated from the French. |
| Subjects |
French fiction -- Translations into English |
| Older men -- Fiction |
| Boxers (Sports) -- Fiction |
| Grandparent and child -- Fiction |
| Automobile travel -- Fiction |
| Families -- France -- Fiction |
| France -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Humorous fiction |
| Road fiction |
| Other Names |
Pare, Simon translator. |
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