'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty' Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, ...
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'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty' Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself. 'As revealed in these notebooks, Simenon's is a shrewd, lucid mind ... the balance tips toward the real, the immediate, the mysteries of human complexity above all ... Utterly unpretentious' The New York Times
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. NOTE: In English ONLY (some sites default list this ISBN as English and French). Not ex-lib. Hardcover in orange-red cloth, in black jacket with b/w photos front and rear, 8vo 1st edition (stated). 343pp. B/W plates. VG/VG. Book has clean, bright cloth; mild splaying to front board toward fore edge with no effect on strong, square binding; pages clean and unmarked. jacket has light abrasion with touches of surface loss at spin ends and tips of corners; patches of moderate scuffing mid spine and mid rear panel, central panels otherwise clean with bright titles and figures. Jacket in Brodart..
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Text in English, French. 343 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Book Condition: very good/near fine. clean and sharp cornered. DJ condition: Very good.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. Text in English, French. 343 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. dj has tears.