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LIFE IS ELSEWHERE
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Bibliographic Details
- Format: Paperback
- Book condition: Very Good -
- Jacket condition: No Jacket
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN 10: 0140064702
- ISBN 13: 9780140064704
- Publisher: Penguin USA
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1994
- Size: 5 x 7.75 x 0.75 inches
- Weight: 0.5 pounds
Book Description
New York: Penguin USA, 1994 307pp. Has wear. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled. Pages Browning. Internally Clean. Lang:English. Vols:1, Wt: 1lbs.. Paperback. Very Good -/No Jacket. 0.8 x 5.0 x 7.8 inches.
Book summary
Kundera's ironic coming-of-age novel is about a boy named Jaromil, who was raised to be a poet by his mother--a woman who haunts his life both as an adolescent and an adult.
Media Reviews
"It seems to me that the novel is only half-successful because it looks too much as if Kundera is shooting a clumsy fish in a very small barrel. And it is not a very convincing rebuttal of the heroics of Byron and Shelley or the poetic mind in general. It is a particularizing of an isolated case of perversity--metrical feet shod with jackboots....It is, among other things, a novel of tremendous elasticity, stretching in all directions as it moves forward; it is also very funny."
-- Paul Theroux, New York Times Book Review
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