Life A User's Manual
by
Georges Perec
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Title: | Life A User's Manual |
Author: | Georges Perec |
Genre: | Novel |
Written: | 1978 (Eng. 1987, rev. 2009) |
Length: | 501 pages |
Original in: | French |
Availability: | Life A User's Manual- US |
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La Vie mode d'emploi- France | |
Das Leben Gebrauchsanweisung- Deutschland | |
La vita istruzioni per l'uso- Italia | |
La vida instrucciones de uso- España |
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Source | Rating | Date | Reviewer | ||
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Atlantic Monthly | . | 12/1987 | Phoebe-Lou Adams | ||
FAZ | A | 15/8/2002 | Tobias Döring | ||
London Rev.of Books | . | 10/12/1987 | Patrick Parrinder | ||
The LA Times | . | 29/11/1987 | Richard Eder | ||
The Nation | . | 3/8/2016 | Joanna Scott | ||
The New Republic | . | 8/2/1988 | Sven Birkerts | ||
The New Statesman | A | 13/11/1987 | Gilbert Adair | ||
The NY Rev. of Books | . | 16/6/1988 | Harry Mathews | ||
The NY Times Book Rev. | A | 15/11/1987 | . | 23/11/1987 | Paul Gray |
TLS | . | 30/10/1987 | Gabriel Josipovici |
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About the Author:
The great French writer Georges Perec (1936-1982) studied sociology at the Sorbonne and worked as a research librarian. His first published novel, Les Choses, won the 1965 Prix Renaudot. A member of the Oulipo since 1967 he wrote a wide variety of pieces, ranging from his impressive fictions to a weekly crossword for Le Point.
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