Child

Name: Child
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ISBN: 9781590171172

ISBN-10: 1590171179

ISBN-13: 9781590171172

Edition: 2004

Authors: Jules Valles, Douglas Parmï¿½e

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The Child is a story about growing up that is comparable in humor and humanity to Great Expectations, even as its unflinching exposure of violence and hypocrisy foreshadows the nightmare realsim of Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Jules Vallès, an anarchist and a bohemian, dedicated his book "to all those who were bored stiff at school or reduced to tears at home, who in childhood were bullied by their teachers or thrashed by their parents," and it tells the (autobiographical) tale of a young boy constantly scapegoated and abused, emotionally and physically, by his peasant mother and schoolteacher father, whose greatest concern is to improve their social status. But the young hero learns to stand up…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 1/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.99" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English