Life, a user's manual
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Boston : David R. Godine, 2009.
ISBN
9781567923735, 1567923739
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Downers Grove Public Library - 2nd Floor - Adult | FICTION PEREC, G. | On Shelf |
Thomas Ford Memorial Library - Stacks | FIC PEREC | On Shelf |
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Published
Boston : David R. Godine, 2009.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xviii, 661 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9781567923735, 1567923739
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in French in 1978 as La Vie mode d'emploi by Editions Hachette Littérature, Paris"--T.p. verso.
General Note
Includes index.
Description
"Life is an unclassified masterpiece, a sprawling compendium as encyclopedic as Dante's Commedia and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and, in its break with tradition, as inspiring as Joyce's Ulysses. Structured around a single moment in time - 8:00 p.m. 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, like an onion being peeled, and extraordinary rich cast of characters is revealed in a series of tales that are bizarre, unlikely, moving, funny, or (sometimes) quite ordinary. 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, from the fears of an ex-croupier to the dreams of a sex-change pop star to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime, Life is a manual of human irony, portraying the mixed marriages of fortunes, passions and despairs, betrayals and bereavements, of hundreds of lives in Paris and around the world." "But the novel in more than an extraordinary range of fictions; it is a closely observed account of life and experience. The apartment block's one hundred rooms are arranged in a magic square, and the book as a whole is peppered with a staggering range of literary puzzles and allusions, acrostics, problems of chess and logic, crosswords, and mathematical formulae. All are there for the reader to solve in the best tradition of the detective novel."--BOOK JACKET.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Perec, G., & Bellos, D. (2009). Life, a user's manual (Second edition.). David R. Godine.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perec, Georges, 1936-1982 and David. Bellos. 2009. Life, a User's Manual. David R. Godine.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Perec, Georges, 1936-1982 and David. Bellos. Life, a User's Manual David R. Godine, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Perec, Georges, and David Bellos. Life, a User's Manual Second edition., David R. Godine, 2009.
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