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"Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success."
—The Suicide Shop motto
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The Suicide Shop (Le Magasin Des Suicides in its original French) is a Black Comedy by the French author and film-maker Jean Teule about the Tuvauches, the family that runs the afore-mentioned shop in the distant future after the "Big One" where life has become meaningless for most, leading to them seeking out the Suicide Shop, where they have a method to kill yourself for any budget. When their youngest son, Alan is born, they discover that he is not like the others.
This book includes examples of:
- Black Comedy
- Crapsack World
- Cheerful Child: Alan
- Hollywood Pudgy: Marilyn
- Meaningful Name: all three of the Tuvauche children are named after suicides
- Alan for Alan Turing
- Marilyn for Marilyn Monroe
- Vincent for Vincent van Gogh
- Suicide as Comedy: Alan's sergeant during his stint in the Monaco suicide commando team
"Watch carefully as I'll only be showing you once." |