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The Jokers
de Cossery, Albert
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1590173252
- ISBN 13
- 9781590173251
- Librería
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Reno, Nevada, United States
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Sinopsis
Albert Cossery (1913–2008) was a Cairo-born French writer of Lebanese and Greek Orthodox Syrian descent who settled in Paris at the end of the Second World War and lived there for the rest of his life. The son of an illiterate mother and a newspaper-reading father with a private income from inherited property, Cossery was educated from a young age in French schools, where he received his baccalauréat and developed a love of classical literature. At age seventeen he made a trip to the French capital with the intention of continuing his studies there. Instead he joined the Egyptian merchant marine, eventually serving as chief steward on the Port Said–New York line. When he was twenty-seven his first book, Men God Forgot , was published in Cairo and, with the help of Henry Miller, in the United States. In 1945 he returned to Paris to write and live alongside some of the most influential writers and artists of the last century, including Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tristan Tzara, Alberto Giacometti, Lawrence Durrell, and Jean Genet. He was also, briefly, married to the actress Monique Chaumette. In 1990 Cossery was awarded the Grand Prix de la francophonie de l’Académie française and in 2005 the Grand Prix Poncetton de la Société des gens de lettres. His books, which have been translated into more than fifteen languages, include The House of Certain Death, The Lazy Ones , and Proud Beggars . Anna Moschovakis has translated The Engagement by Georges Simenon and The Possession by Annie Ernaux. James Buchan’s latest novel is The Gate of Air.
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- Librería
- Better World Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 5773426-6
- Título
- The Jokers
- Autor
- Cossery, Albert
- Estado del libro
- Used - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 2
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1590173252
- ISBN 13
- 9781590173251
- Editorial
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2010-07-13
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