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    • Adrien Bosc

    Adrien Bosc was born in Avignon in 1986. He is a writer and publisher and the founder of Les Éditions du sous-sol. His first novel, Constellation (Other Press, 2015), was awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie française and was translated in over ten languages. In 2018, Bosc released Capitaine (a.k.a. Outrageous Horizon in the UK). The Invention of Tristan, his latest book, is the astonishing true story of Tristan Egolf and Lord of the Barnyard — which has been excerpted in this issue of County Highway.

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    Excerpt

    The Lord of the Barnyard

    By Adrien Bosc

    In December of 1993, when Tristan Egolf arrived in Paris at the age of 22, he had only a hundred dollars in his pocket, three books, and a manuscript. In his notebook, an address on the rue Carpeaux belonging to a friend from Philadelphia. A friend he’d made in college — he’d spent just one … Continue Reading