Published in France for the first time last year--34 years after it was discovered in the wreckage of the car in which Camus was killed--this autobiographical novel covers the years of Camus' childhood in Algeria, growing up in poverty among silent, illiterate women, desperately searching for a father. Completely unedited, the manuscript was transcribed by Camus' daughter Catherine.
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Published in France for the first time last year--34 years after it was discovered in the wreckage of the car in which Camus was killed--this autobiographical novel covers the years of Camus' childhood in Algeria, growing up in poverty among silent, illiterate women, desperately searching for a father. Completely unedited, the manuscript was transcribed by Camus' daughter Catherine.
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Good. There is a signature, stamp, or handwriting on the inside front cover. The pages are sun faded and slightly yellowing This is a paperback copy This is an ex library book with sticker sand markings Fast Shipping-Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x1x7; Minor shelf wear to binding. Light wear & soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing box or discs. Damaged item.
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Like New. Like New condition. Like New dust jacket. 6th printing. (domestic fiction, children, fatherless families, Algeria) A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Book First American edition (stated), first printing, hardcover. 325 pages. Near Fine with head of spine lightly pushed and foxing to top edge of text block, in a fine, mylar-covered dust jacket.
A few years following his acclaim as Nobel Prize winner, Albert Camus suffers a fatal car accident. The manuscript found in the wreckage has been edited by his daughter and published as "the First Man" in 1995. In this autobiography, camus intdroduces us to the poverty and struggles of the french algerian colonists. Having been orphaned by his fathers death in WWW 1 trenches, he is raised by an affectionate but deaf mute Mother and a tyrannical and abusive gradmother. How he survives this bleak environment is largely due to a remarkable teacher who rechognizes his talsnts and tutors him up to scholarships. Tallented in philosophy as well as journalism, his essays on "Absurdism" and nihilism make a mark on Parisian intellectuals. Written with intense feeling and honesty, his life story is tryuly inspiring. A great book !
sghfromnj
Sep 8, 2007
The First Man - Camus
This was such a gem to find! Unfinished, and therefore full of notes to himself, it shows us Camus in reverie. Tender, heartbreaking, real -- I feel I have been in the life of the boy who surely was Camus himself! Even if you find other books by Camus uncomfortably dark, this one is full of the kind of hope that perseveres in the heart of a brilliant spirit.
