Et rien d’autre

As the Second World War draws to a close, Philip Bowman returns to the United States aboard an aircraft carrier off Japan. Two obsessions will follow him all his life: literature and the search for love. Hired by a publisher, he thrives in the closed world of independent houses, and his success is swift and undeniable. Love, or rather the ideal he pursues, keeps slipping away. A magnificent novel that reads like the testament of a generation of writers, the last witnesses to a vanishing world.