Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep

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 *
[A Man Asleep] Bleak, benighted, uncompromisingly unhappy, this is not the book to read if you already have difficulty in finding reasons for getting out of bed * Guardian *
A Man Asleep is true to its subject and also readable...a remarkable achievement * Independent *
Perec's fiction is a delight to all who care for real literature * Guardian *
Two striking, clumsy, romantic studies in extremism * Independent *