Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau's cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word play and phonetic games, Zazie in the Metro remains as stylish and witty as ever.

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Author: Raymond Queneau
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 11/01/2001
Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.76h x 5.05w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780142180044
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Gilbert Adair, writer, film critic, and journalist, is the author of Love and Death on Long Island, among other novels.