The First Man - Hardcover

Camus, Albert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679439374 ISBN 13: 9780679439370

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995

Synopsis

Based on the unfinished manuscript that he was working on at the time of his death, an epic based on Camus's childhood in Algeria profiles a poverty-stricken and fatherless boy who manages to find the small joys of life. 25,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger-- now one of the most widely read novels of this century-- in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.

From the Inside Flap:

Man Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellspring of Camus' aesthetic powers and moral vision.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679439374
• ISBN 13: 9780679439370
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 325