In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there.
Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of characters in a series of every more unlikely tales, which range from an avenging murderer to an eccentric English millionaire who has devised the ultimate pastime...
| ISBN: | 9780099449256 |
| Publication date: | 20th May 1996 |
| Author: | Georges Perec |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 581 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Fiction in translation |
In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years.
Life, a User's Manual features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction in translation
Paperback. £9.89, down from the £10.99 cover price. In Stock.
Life, a User's Manual was written by Georges Perec and published by Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House
Life, a User's Manual has 581 pages
£9.89, reduced from £10.99. In Stock.