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A Void
Georges Perec

ISBN10: 0099512165 ISBN13: 9780099512165
Publisher: Vintage Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jan 2008
Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts to cast its malignant shadow. Anton Vowl is missing. More

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ISBN: 9780099541226 - Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for

Art and Craft of Approaching Your Head of Department to Submit a Request for
Georges Perec

ISBN10: 009954122X ISBN13: 9780099541226
Publisher: Vintage Vintage Classics
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Mar 2011
A novel that dispenses with the normal rules for literary composition. So having weighed the pros and cons you've decided to approach your boss to ask for that well-earned raise in salary but before you schedule the all-important meeting you... More

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Thoughts of Sorts
Georges Perec

ISBN10: 1907903003 ISBN13: 9781907903007
Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 28 Apr 2011
Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour - and pathos - in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists... More

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Things
Georges Perec

ISBN10: 0099541661 ISBN13: 9780099541660
Publisher: Vintage Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Mar 2011
A story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. "Things: A Story of the Sixties" is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to... More

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ISBN: 9780099552352 - W or The Memory of Childhood

W or The Memory of Childhood
Georges Perec

ISBN10: 0099552353 ISBN13: 9780099552352
Publisher: Vintage Vintage Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Mar 2011
Tells two parallel tales, in two parts - one is a story created in childhood and about childhood; and the other story is about two people called Gaspard Winckler: one an eight-year-old deaf-mute lost in a shipwreck, the other a man despatched to... More

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Life
Georges Perec

ISBN10: 0099449250 ISBN13: 9780099449256
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Apr 2003
Serge Valene wants to create 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. This marvellous book is one of the most... More

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ISBN: 9782070733163 - W Ou Le Souvenir D'enfance

W Ou Le Souvenir D'enfance
Georges Perec

ISBN10: 2070733165 ISBN13: 9782070733163
Publisher: Messageries du Livre
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Apr 1993

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ISBN: 9780141442242 - Species of Spaces and Other Pieces

Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
Georges Perec John Sturrock

ISBN10: 0141442247 ISBN13: 9780141442242
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Jan 2008
Georges Perec (1936-82), author of the novel Life: A User's Manual, was one of the most surprising of all modern French writers. The pieces in this volume show him to be at times playful, more serious at others, but writing always with the... More

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Les Choses
Georges Perec

ISBN10: 2266170120 ISBN13: 9782266170123
Publisher: Pocket
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Jul 1984

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Things
Georges Perec

ISBN10: 1567921574 ISBN13: 9781567921571
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher Inc David R. Godine Publisher
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2002
Jerome and Sylvie, the young, upwardly mobile couple in Things, lust for the good life. "They wanted life's enjoyment, but all around them enjoyment was equated with ownership." Surrounded by Paris's tantalizingly exclusive boutiques... More

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