[bksvol-discuss] Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec, translated by David Bellos
- From: misha <mishatronics@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:23:39 -0700
To Ali Hajamy
The universe may be coming to an end soon--I have "Life: A User's
Manual" ready to submit. Should I put it up as Hold for Ali?
For everyone else, here is a synopsis from Amazon:
Over twenty years ago, Godine published the first English translation of
Georges Perec's masterpiece, Life A User's Manual, hailed by the Times
Literary Supplement, Boston Globe, and others as one of the great novels
of the century. 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, an extraordinarily rich cast of characters is revealed in a series
of tales that are bizarre, unlikely, moving, funny, or (sometimes) quite
ordinary.
By the way, I took this on because it came recommended by Martin Gardner
in his capacity as Royal Historian of Oz. So, clearly it is indeed a
puzzle book.
Misha
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