Life, a User's Manual / Georges Perec, David Bellos

2009 / Georges Perec, David Bellos / 661 pages / Life, a User's Manual / David R. Godine, 2009 / 1567923739, 9781567923735 / Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement, Boston Globe, and others as "one of the great novels of the century." We are now proud to announce a newly revised twentieth-anniversary edition of this classic. Structured around a single moment in time - 8:00 PM on June 23, 1975 - Perec's spellbinding puzzle begins in an apartment block in the XVIIth arrondissement of Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, the extraordinarily rich life of its inhabitants is marvelously revealed. file download mexe.pdf

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