Things: A Story of the Sixties and a Man Asleep

by David Bellos, Andrew Leak, Georges Perec

Book Overview

Two thematically-related novellas by Georges Perec in one volume. In each, Perec probes our obsession with society's trappings--the seductive mass of things that masquerade as stability and meaning.

In Things: A Story of the Sixties, Jerome and Sylvie, a young, upwardly mobile couple lust for the good life, caught between the fantasy of "the film they would have liked to live" and the reality of life's daily mundanities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567921574
• ISBN13: 9781567921571
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Verba Mundi
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"