PEREC, GEORGES. Life, A User's Manual, Boston: David R. Godine, 1987.Octavo, first English language edition, first American edition, pp. (xvii), 581, quarter-bound in black cloth over gray paper-covered boards, fine copy in near-fine dust jacket. Translated from French by David Bellos.Condition of this book:Near fine dust jacket shows light wear, no tears.All else fine. This is the first USA edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). (xvii), 581. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; France; 1980s; Fiction. ISBN: 0879237007. ISBN/EAN: 9780879237004. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 50603. Seller Inventory # 50603

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Title: Life A User's Manual

Publisher: Godine, Boston

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First Edition.

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Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block

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Georges Perec (1936-82) won the Prix Renaudot in 1965 for his first novel Things: A Story of the Sixties, and went on to exercise his unrivalled mastery of language in almost every imaginable kind of writing, from the apparently trivial to the deeply personal. He composed acrostics, anagrams, autobiography, criticism, crosswords, descriptions of dreams, film scripts, heterograms, lipograms, memories, palindromes, plays, poetry, radio plays, recipes, riddles, stories short and long, travel notes, univocalics, and, of course, novels. Life: A User's Manual, which draws on many of Perec's other works, appeared in 1978 after nine years in the making and was acclaimed a masterpiece to put beside Joyce's Ulysses. It won the Prix Medicis and established Perec's international reputation.

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