Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep
Georges Perec author David Bellos translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:3rd Mar '11
Should be back in stock very soon
Two brilliant, witty and subversive stories from the modern master - cult classics for the 60s generation
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 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 do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a generation.
In A Man Asleep, a young student embarks upon a disturbing and exhaustive pursuit of indifference, following his experience in non-existence with relentless logic.
Required reading for anyone interested in the evolution of this modern master -- Andrew Motion * Observer *
As a witty attack on consumerism Things is as much a parable of the Nineties as it is a story of the Sixties * Sunday Times *
Perec's first novel is a masterpiece of elegaic mockery * Financial Times *
Things, Perec's first novel, is an innovative, perceptive and even moving study of corrosive consumerism * Independent *
[A Man Asleep is] grimly obsessing...one turns the pages with unlikely fascination -- Euan Cameron * Sunday Telegraph *
ISBN: 9780099541660
Dimensions: 198mm x 128mm x 14mm
Weight: 160g
224 pages