Life: A User's Manual
A User's Manual
- Paperback
661 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2008
Summary
“One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has produced a novel on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov.”–Boston Globe
From the confessions of a racing cyclist to the plans of an avenging murderer, from a young ethnographer obsessed with a Sumatran tribe to the death of a trapeze artist, Life is stories connected by a single moment in time (8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975) in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of P…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781567923735 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1567923739 |
| Author: | Georges Perec |
| Publisher: | David R. Godine Publisher |
| Imprint: | David R. Godine Publisher Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 661 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 794g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 140mm x 213mm |
| Series: | Verba Mundi (Paperback) |
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Praise for Life A User’s Manual
“Those who have a taste for the unusual, for books that create worlds unto themselves, will be dazzled by this crazy-quilt monument to the imagination.”–The New York Times Book Review
“In this wondrously optimistic book, he sidles through the lives of the inhabitants of a single Paris apartment block and manages to convey scintillas of every aspect of the human condition–proving that, while ultimately without point, life is a continuum rich beyond belief, and so very well worth living.”–The Week Magazine
“This elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel has drawn comparisons to the masterworks of twentieth-century literature.”–Rolling Stone
“A classic of contemporary fiction.”–Publishers Weekly
“Absolutely indispensable…a postmodern work that you shouldn’t miss out on.”–The Huffington Post
About The Author
Georges Perec
Georges Perec was one of the most important experimental writers ofthe twentieth century. His many works include the novels Life: AUser’s Manual; W, Or, The Memory of Childhood; and The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise.
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