Georges Perec (Over 2,800 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. "One of the great novels of the century. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the late 20th century has produced a novel on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov."--Boston Globe 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, an 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 A User's Manual 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 is more than an extraordinary range of individual stories; 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 formula. All are there for the reader to solve.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A moving hybrid work about Ellis Island and immigration by the marvelous Georges Perec.

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Paperback. Condition: Like New. "One of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else." -Italo Calvino "A satire for the author's day and oh yes our own on the subtly crushing effects of corporate life . [a] delectable and philosophical office farce."-Steven Poole, Guardian.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A moving hybrid work about Ellis Island and immigration by the marvelous Georges Perec.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine, First impression (stated). Clean copy with no marks or underlines, tight binding, a smooth spine and no reading creases. Not ex-library or remaindered.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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