Life, a User's Manual
- ISBN-10
- 1567923739
- ISBN-13
- 9781567923735
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 661
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- David R. Godine Publisher
- Author
- Georges Perec
Description
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." We are now proud to announce a newly revised twentieth-anniversary edition of this classic. Structured around a single moment in time - 8:00 PM 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, the extraordinarily rich life of its inhabitants is marvelously revealed.
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