About this title: Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clezio lends his voice to the dispossessed and explores his familiar themes of alienation, immigration, poverty, violence, ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Date Published: 2002-09-01
ISBN-13:9780803280076ISBN:0803280076
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bison Books, U of NE
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780803280076ISBN:0803280076
Description: As New. A bright, tight edition translated from the French by C. Dickson. Wraps are clean & sharp; well bound w/clean, unmarked pages throughout. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bison Books
Date Published: 2002-09-01
ISBN-13:9780803280076ISBN:0803280076
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780803280076ISBN:0803280076
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780803280076ISBN:0803280076
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780803229464ISBN:0803229461
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780803280076ISBN:0803280076
Description: New. Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clezio lends his voice to the... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London
Date Published: 2003
Description: Softcover. Brand new book. Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clézio lends his voice to the dispossessed and explores his familiar themes of alienation, immigration, poverty, violence, indifference, the loss of beauty, and the betrayal of innocence. In one story an adolescent girl encounters the violence of a ... read more
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780803229464ISBN:0803229461
Description: New. Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clezio lends his voice to the... read more
"Beautiful writing (would that my French was good enough to read the original), beautiful imagery, but the stories are a cavalcade of the worst horrors of life--rape, suicide, oppressed immigrants, overdevelopment..."
"The stories were not bad, but depressing and I wasn't in the mood. I read it in the english translation and think it would have been better in the original language."
"A bit excessive in the long descriptive passages in the service of creating generally bleak moods and environments for the characters to act out stories which are a bit too blatantly politically leftist for my tastes ("oh!, pity the downtrodden, expoited, etc..."). There is some real poetic writing, however, which raises it from 2 to 3 stars for me."
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