The Pouncer
Julian Barnes, 3 March 1983
The Mystery of Georges Simenon
by Fenton Bresler.
Heinemann, 259 pp., £8.95, February 1983,0 434 98033 1 Show More
by Fenton Bresler.
Heinemann, 259 pp., £8.95, February 1983,
“... of the historical record. Simenon’s life – and memoirs – have been dominated by women (Fenton Bresler’s book confirms the paucity of close male friends). There has been a mother, two wives, a last-lap companion, a daughter, and the ten thousand-plus others, of whom perhaps four-fifths were prostitutes (the sums are not that improbable ... ”