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The First Man - Hardcover

Camus, Albert

 
9780679439370: The First Man

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.

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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.

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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.

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