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Life : A User's Manual Author: Georges Perec

ISBN: 9780099449256 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 608 Published: 1 June 2003 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.7 x 12.9 x 3.7 Description: 'The last major event in the history of the novel' Italo Calvino

One of the most dazzling and ingeniously contrived works of twentieth-century fiction, an entire microcosm brought to life in a Paris apartment block. Serge Val-ne, one of the inhabitants of the apartment block, has conceived the idea of a painting which will show in exact detail the inside of each apartment within the building, every person, every object. As he thinks of his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known or heard about in sixty years living there. Chapter by chapter, room by room, the narrative moves around the building, revealing as it does so a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of ever more unlikely tales, which range from an avenging murderer to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime.

About the Author

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 trivia...

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