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Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099541660

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 159g

  • RRP: £9.99

Things: A Story of the Sixties with A Man Asleep

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099541660

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 159g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • 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

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About the Author

Georges Perec

Georges Perec (1936-82) won the Prix Renaudot in 1965 for his first novel Things: A Story of the Sixties, and went on to exercise his unrivalled mastery of language in almost every imaginable kind of writing, from the apparently trivial to the deeply personal. He composed acrostics, anagrams, autobiography, criticism, crosswords, descriptions of dreams, film scripts, heterograms, lipograms, memories, palindromes, plays, poetry, radio plays, recipes, riddles, stories short and long, travel notes, univocalics, and, of course, novels. Life A User's Manual, which draws on many of Perec's other works, appeared in 1978 after nine years in the making and was acclaimed a masterpiece to put beside Joyce's Ulysses. It won the Prix Medicis and established Perec's international reputation.

Georges Perec

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