A review by paulataua
The Waitress Was New by Dominique Fabre

5.0

‘The Waitress Was New’ focuses in on three days in the life of Pierre an aging bartender in a not wholly fashionable bar. Pierre is just three years away from his retirement. I'd just watched ‘Love Me Strangely’(1971), one totally weird movie, and unsuccessfully tried to get a copy of ‘Un Beau Monstre’, the book that gave birth to that movie. As a result, I just had to try this, another of the author’s novels. I loved it. Nothing much happens throughout the hundred or so pages, but it says so much, and I found myself unable to put it down. Fabre really captures people in their everyday lives.
I have already acquired another of his novels and am desperately trying to keep it from climbing up my TBR list.