Martin Page’s The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection

“I need a medical certificate saying that I’m alive so that they can turn the electricity back on at my place. It’s a long story.”

So entreats Virgil, the hero of Martin Page’s sweetly amusing novel The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection, of his long-suffering shrink. Virgil is a navel-gazing thirty-one-year-old who lives in Paris, works as an advertising copywriter, and always dresses in corduroys, check shirts and V-necked sweaters. (One vividly pictures a nerdier Louis Garrel.)  Read the rest @ Words Without Borders.