Pedigree
by Simenon, Georges
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 2253142808
- ISBN 13
- 9782253142805
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Synopsis
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. He went to work as a reporter at the age of fifteen and in 1923 moved to Paris, where under various pseudonyms he became a highly successful and prolific author of pulp fiction while leading a dazzling social life. In the early 1930s, Simenon emerged as a writer under his own name, gaining renown for his detective stories featuring Inspector Maigret. He also began to write his psychological novels, or romans durs— books in which he displays a sympathetic awareness of the emotional and spiritual pain underlying the routines of daily life. Having written nearly two hundred books under his own name and become the best-selling author in the world, Simenon retired as a novelist in 1973, devoting himself instead to dictating several volumes of memoirs. Robert Baldick was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and of the Royal Society of Literature. He wrote a number of histories and biographies, and translated the works of a wide range of French authors. He was a joint editor of Penguin Classics and one of Britain’s leading French scholars until his death in 1972. Luc Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings , and Folk Photography . He has translated Félix Fénéon’s Novels in Three Lines and written the introduction to George Simenon’s The Man Who Watched Trains Go B y (both available as NYRB Classics). He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books a nd teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
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- Bookseller
- Better World Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GRP104929455
- Title
- Pedigree
- Author
- Simenon, Georges
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 2253142808
- ISBN 13
- 9782253142805
- Publisher
- Livre de Poche
- This edition first published
- January 14, 1998
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