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Live Fast

Brigitte Giraud

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#2896 of 8,085 books · #1352 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award (2026).

Live Fast won the Prix Goncourt. Paced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud's tense and haunting novel follows one woman's quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner Claude at age 41. The narrator of Live Fast recounts the chain of events that led up to the fateful accident, tracing the tiny, maddening twists of fate that might have prevented its tragic outcome. Each chapter asks the rhetorical question, "what if," departing from an image or memory from early years in Algeria during the war, to moving to the suburbs of Lyon, buying and renovating a home where they could "put down their suitcase for a whole life." A sensitive elegy to her husband and a subtle, precise vision of a lasting love, Live Fast is a moving and electrifying portrait of two people caught up in the mundane activities of life, forgetting that living itself can be dangerous.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780063346741
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Grief and lossFate and chanceLove and memory

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