{"product_id":"nadaisbn-9781681373171","title":"Nada","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis tour de force political thriller, told in Manchette's signature noir style, follows a group of far left extremists in the throes of post-1968 disillusionment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The thrill of 1968 is long over, and the heavy fog of the 1970s has settled in. In Paris, however, the Nada gang—or groupuscule—still retains a militant attachment to its revolutionary dreams. Bringing together an anarchist orphaned by the Spanish Civil War, a Communist veteran of the French resistance, a frustrated high-school teacher of philosophy, a timid office worker, a terminal alcoholic, and one uncompromising young woman with a house in the country, Nada sets out to kidnap the American ambassador and issue a call to arms.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What could possibly go wrong?“\u003ci\u003eNada\u003c\/i\u003e . . . is about as far as crime fiction gets from the cosy confines of the Anglophone whodunnit.” —Oscar Mardell, \u003ci\u003e3:AM Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As always, [Manchette] deftly keeps generalizations at bay and crafts a novel that exposes, critiques, but, most importantly, entertains. . . . The lasting impact of \u003ci\u003eNada\u003c\/i\u003e, and of all Manchette novels, owes to the author’s skill at portraying the assault of the political on the personal, without ever making it explicit.” —Tom Roberge,\u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Writing so dark it gives a new meaning to the word noir.” —Frederick Méziès\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Post Manchette, crime fiction in France acquired a stamp and a tone that turned it once more into an invasion of the everyday, a belligerent raid on appearances, a violent revolution in a genre hitherto guilty of complacency but now startlingly chilling. And \u003ci\u003eNada \u003c\/i\u003eis unarguably Manchette’s masterpiece.” —Paco Ignacio Taibo II \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[Manchette] was like an electroshock to the chloroformed country of literature and the French thriller.” —Jean-François Gérault\u003cb\u003eJean-Patrick Manchette\u003c\/b\u003e (1942–1995) was a crime novelist, screenwriter, critic, and translator. In 1971 he published his first novel and went on to establish a new genre of French novel, the neo-polar. NYRB Classics publishes his \u003ci\u003eFatale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mad and the Bad\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIvory Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e has translated Manchette’s \u003ci\u003eFatale\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mad and the Bad\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIvory Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as Jean-Paul Clebert’s \u003ci\u003eParis Vagabond\u003c\/i\u003e for NYRB Classics, and Yvan Alagbe’s \u003ci\u003eYellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e and Nicole Claveloux’s \u003ci\u003eThe Green Hand and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e for NYR Comics. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucy Sante \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eLow Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvidence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Factory of Facts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKill All Your Darlings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFolk Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Paris\u003c\/i\u003e. She translated Félix Fénéon’s \u003ci\u003eNovels in Three Lines\u003c\/i\u003e and has written introductions to several other NYRB Classics, including \u003ci\u003eClassic Crimes\u003c\/i\u003e by William Roug­head and \u003ci\u003ePedigree\u003c\/i\u003e by Georges Simenon. A frequent contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, she teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302989418725,"sku":"NP9781681373171","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681373171.jpg?v=1730752661","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/nadaisbn-9781681373171","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}