When I Was Old
$40.11
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
29 February 2016
Summary
An intimate, unsparing and often moving autobiographical insight into Georges Simenon’s extraordinary life.
In 1960, 1961 and 1962, for personal reasons, or for reasons I don’t know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks.
Here in notebooks that were never intended for publication, Simenon reflects on his life in some of the most candid revelations ever written. He reflects on his past—his childhood in Liège, the wild parties in Paris and travels around the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241213131 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241213134 |
| Author: | Georges Simenon |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 29 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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One of the most poignant autobiographies. – New York Time Magazine * Leslie Garis *Fascinating * Sunday Telegraph *Makes you feel he’s chatting to you as he would to a good friend. The Simenon of the statistics (books written, women bedded) recedes into the background and Simenon the man comes to the fore. – Anthony Thuillier * Irish Independent *
About The Author
Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
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