Montbrison. The Lavigne bookstore advises reading “Ironopolis”, a novel “a little a UFO”

Published in October 2023 by editions of Typhon. Similarly, Ironopolis will be released in his pocket on August 29, 2025 for the start of the literary school year. Similarly, Ironopolisthis is the name of a fictitious English city. Consequently, More specifically of an industrial city, while the metallurgical industry on which it depends has just closed. However, “We find ourselves at a time when rehousing policies inherited from the Thatcher period destroy the great housing cities. The inhabitants see their history going to dust with the destruction of this city, ”says Clément Guillot.

The novel revolves around a dozen different texts that maintain correspondence through the characters. “It is a set of heterogeneous texts that portray the city and its population,” summarizes the bookseller. The reader travels the generations, explores social circles, rubs shoulders with the marginal and left-in-law of Ironopolis. montbrison. lavigne bookstore advises reading “All the characters are a little linked. we start for example with a mother about to die, we finish with her husband who is a thug, but we also follow a brother and a sister several years apart … There is an investigation side. the links between the characters are coated with mystery and you have to finish the book to understand them”. “It’s quite fascinating, we find ourselves almost as a resident of Ironopolis as we are printed with the city. »»