Might have a remainder mark or slight wear from sitting on the shelf. The spine remains undamaged.

On his return, he solves the jigsaws and uses a chemical solution to 're-bind' them into paintings.

Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Yet it was also a story-book as varied as anything by Dumas or Dickens. Perec had famously written a book without the letter "e" (La disparition, translated by Gilbert Adair as A Void), created the world's longest palindrome (earning him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records) and, starting in 1976, was the crossword-puzzle setter for Le Point. And that could easily be changed!

The first time I laid eyes on Georges Perec (not too dissimilar from his profile photo) many wild thoughts went through my head, a former child genius maybe, who had a nervous breakdown, ran away from home and was taken in by a religious cult that wore white robes and worshipped the moons of Jupiter, or a crazy scientist who spent far too much time in a dingy basement playing around with bunsen-burners and messing with chemical formulas, or how about a quite brilliant eccentric piano player who was kidnapped by a Colombian drug cartel and forced to play a birthday concert for the wife of a cartel boss in a hidden mansion, only to develop a seriously bad coke habit before being released. I also knew what the puzzle was. Previous page of related Sponsored Products, Vintage Classics; New Ed Edition (20 May 1996). Whimsical, tragic, ceaselessly engaging. 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... A dazzling, crazy-quilt monument to the imagination (Paul Auster.

Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. Far from detracting from the book's interest, Perec's reticence made his novel deeply moving.

Some of the people in this book lead exciting lives, some don't. Paperback. A+ Customer service! There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Not much dialogue, mostly summarized scenes, short chapters, stories within stories within stories, a cast of hundreds. The spine remains undamaged. My colleague had been right. Wonderful book ! Synopsis "One of the great novels of the century. Seller Inventory # DS-1860461468-1, Life: A User's Manual (Harvill Panther S.). It won the Prix Medicis and established Perec's international reputation. Condition: Very Good. Time moves them all, and Perec's masterpiece manages to make time palpable, fragrant and sad."

A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Life A User's Manual is probably the work Georges Perec is best known for. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. They add together to make a book of melancholy charm. £ 1.45 Seller Inventory # GOR003232783, Book Description HARVILL.

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