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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

One of the most important post-war French novelists, Georges Perec was only 42 when he died in 1982. He is the author of LIFE, A USER'S MANUAL. THE WINTER JOURNEY has been published as a Penguin Syren.

Georges Perec

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