Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
- ISBN-10
- 022624167X
- ISBN-13
- 9780226241678
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 289
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-09-16
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Alice Kaplan
Description
"A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world, "--NoveList.
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