Life A User's Manual

Name: Life A User's Manual
Price: 8.08 USD
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ISBN: 9780879237516

ISBN-10: 0879237511

ISBN-13: 9780879237516

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Georges Perec, David Bellos

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Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses. Structured around a single moment in time 8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975 Perec's spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, like an onion being peeled, and extraordinary rich cast of characters is revealed in a series of tales that are bizarre, unlikely, moving, funny, or (sometimes) quite ordinary. From the confessions of a racing cyclist to the plans of an avenging murderer, from a young ethnographer obsessed with a…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

George Perec was born in Paris on March 7, 1936 and was educated in Claude-Bernard and Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire. Perec was a parachutist in the French Military before he began publishing his writing in magazines like Partisans. Perec also wrote the book, Life: A Users Manual. Georges Perec died on March 3, 1982.