Top edges slightly toned. Dustwrapper slightly sunned on spine, but unclipped. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 1st edition. No ownership marks. Binding sound, text unmarked. Size: vii,262pp.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

The First Man: Translated from the French by David Hapgood

Publisher

Hamish Hamilton

Publication Date

1995

Language

English

ISBN 10

0241134951

ISBN 13

9780241134955

Binding

Binding sound, text unmarked

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Fine

Signed

No ownership marks

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Synopsis

In The First Man Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellspring of Camus' aesthetic powers and moral vision.

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"A masterpiece...One of the most extraordinary evocations of childhood that exists in any language."
-- Boston Globe

"Serves as a kind of magical Rosetta stone to Camus's entire career, illuminating both his life and his work with stunning candor and passion."
-- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"The most ambitious and compassionate of his books...The First Man has resurrected the author as dramatically as a revisitation."
-- The Nation

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