From the author of Life A User's Manual comes an equally mind-bending novel: an interpretive vision of the Holocaust and a dystopian world. W or The Memory of Childhood is a narrative that reflects a great writer's effort to come to terms with his childhood during the Nazi occupation of France. Perec tells two parallel stories. The first is autobiographical, describing his wartime boyhood. The second tale, denser, more disturbing, more horrifying, is the allegorical story of W, a mythical island off Tierra del ...
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From the author of Life A User's Manual comes an equally mind-bending novel: an interpretive vision of the Holocaust and a dystopian world. W or The Memory of Childhood is a narrative that reflects a great writer's effort to come to terms with his childhood during the Nazi occupation of France. Perec tells two parallel stories. The first is autobiographical, describing his wartime boyhood. The second tale, denser, more disturbing, more horrifying, is the allegorical story of W, a mythical island off Tierra del Fuego governed by the thrall of the Olympic "ideal," where losers are tortured and winners held in temporary idolatry. As the reader soon discovers, W is a place where "it is more important to be lucky than to be deserving," and "you have to fight to live...no recourse, no mercy, no salvation, not even any hope that time will sort things out." Perec's memory of the Holocaust and vision about its meaning has resulted in an astonishing achievement that stands with the best of his work.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Jacket is rubbed, worn on edges, and has pricing sticker on back, but text and images are clear and bright. Cover is sunned at top of spine. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. First American edition. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket, minor discoloration to the page-edges, light edgewear to the dust jacket.
