Life: A User's Manual
Georges Perec
ISBN 10: 0879237007 ISBN 13: 9780879237004
Published by David R Godine Pub, 1987
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Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # P16OS-00493
Synopsis:
Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block
Review:
"A dazzling, crazy-quilt monument to the imagination" (Paul Auster New York Times)
"An eccentric, madly ambitious scheme to display life all at once. The product of a hectically ingenious intelligence, like James Joyce's" (Victoria Glendinning The Times)
"Amazing, moving and lovable" (New Statesman)
"The finest novel to appear in French since Beckett's trilogy" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Very funny and very sad... A treasure-chest of stories, something to be enjoyed by anyone who has ever responded to works on the same scale and in the same spirit as Rabelais and Chaucer and Sterne" (Scotsman)
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Life: A User's Manual
Publisher: David R Godine Pub
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included