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Things: A Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep by Perec, Georges
by Perec, Georges | HC | Good
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- Condition
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- Product Group
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780879238575
- EAN
- 9780879238575
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Things: a Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Publisher
- Godine Publisher, David R.
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 15.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Two thematically-related novellas by Georges Perec in one volume. In each, Perec probes our obsession with society's trappings--the seductive mass of things that masquerade as stability and meaning. In Things: A Story of the Sixties , Jerome and Sylvie, a young, upwardly mobile couple lust for the good life, caught between the fantasy of "the film they would have liked to live" and the reality of life's daily mundanities. The nameless student in A Man Asleep attempts to purify himself entirely of material desires and ambition. He longs "to want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep." Yearning to exist on neutral ground as "a blessed parenthesis," he discovers something unexpected. With the American publication of Life: A User's Manual in 1987, Georges Perec was recognized in the United States as one of this century's most innovative writers. Things: A Story of the Sixties is accessible, sobering, and deeply involving. Each novel distills Perec's unerring grasp of the human condition and displays his rare comic talent, detachment, and compassion.
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Publisher
Godine Publisher, David R.
ISBN-10
0879238577
ISBN-13
9780879238575
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1118092
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Things: a Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1994
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq2676.E67a23 1990
Copyright Date
1990
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
General, Literary
Lccn
90-055284
Genre
Fiction
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