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Life a User's Manual Paperback - 2009

by Georges Perec; David Bellos (Translator)


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"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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  • Title Life a User's Manual
  • Author Georges Perec; David Bellos (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd
  • Pages 661
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verba Mundi, Boston
  • Date 2009-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781567923735 / 1567923739
  • Weight 1.75 lbs (0.79 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.6 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 4.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, City and town life
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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