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Title: LIFE
A USER'S MANUAL
By: Georges Perec
Format: Paperback

List price: £10.99
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ISBN 10: 0099449250
ISBN 13: 9780099449256
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Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 3 April, 2003
Pages: 608
Translated from: French
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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...
Publication: UK
Imprint: Vintage
Returns: Returnable
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FICHE DE LECTURE LA VIE MODE D''EMPLOI (ETUDE INTEGRALE)
FICHE DE LECTURE LA VIE MODE D''EMPLOI DE PEREC (ANALYSE LITTERAIRE DE REFERENCE ET RESUME COMPLET)
FICHE DE LECTURE LES CHOSES DE GEORGES PEREC (ANALYSE LITTERAIRE DE REFERENCE ET RESUME COMPLET)
FICHE DE LECTURE UN HOMME QUI DORT DE GE (PB)
FICHE DE LECTURE W OU LE SOUVENIR D''ENFANCE (ETUDE INTEGRALE)
FICHE DE LECTURE W OU LE SOUVENIR D''ENFANCE DE PEREC (ANALYSE LITTERAIRE DE REFERENCE ET RESUME COMPLET)
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GEORGES PEREC - WISHES
HOMME QUI DORT DE GEORGES PEREC (FICHE DE LECTURE ET ANALYSE COMPLETE DE L''OEUVRE)
I REMEMBER
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L''ATTENTAT DE SARAJEVO
L'ART ET LA MANIERE D'ABORDER SON CHEF DE SERVIE POUR LUI DEMANDER... (PB)
LA BOUTIQUE OBSCURE (PB)
LA BOUTIQUE OBSCURE (PB)
LA DISPARITION DE GEORGES PEREC FICHE D (PB)
LA VIE MODE D'EMPLOI (PB)
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LES MOTS CROISES (PB)
LIFE
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PORTRAIT OF A MAN (HB)
PORTRAIT OF A MAN (PB)
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QUEL PETIT VELO A GUIDON CHROME AU FOND DE LA COUR ?
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SLEEPING MAN
SPECIES OF SPACES AND OTHER PIECES (PB)
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THE ART AND CRAFT OF APPROACHING YOUR HEAD OF DEPARTMENT TO SUBMIT A REQUEST FOR A RAISE
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