The Book of Flights by Jmg Le Clezio
Young Man Hogan's journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes - deserts, seas, mountains, islands, cities and great plains - to countless entertainments and adventures in four continents. It is an exploration and a celebration, glittering and exuberant, of the writer's art and of life itself.
Beautifully translated by Simon Watson-Taylor * Sunday Telegraph *
..author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization -- Nobel Prize Committee
Full of fun and poetry...one of the most delightful and engaging experimental French novelists * Sunday Times *
..author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization -- Nobel Prize Committee
Full of fun and poetry...one of the most delightful and engaging experimental French novelists * Sunday Times *
J.M.G. Le Clézio was born in Nice, France, in 1940 to a French mother and her first-cousin, a Mauritian doctor of French origin who, being born in Mauritius when the island was under British rule, held a British passport. However, the family was completely Francophone. Jean-Marie Le Clézio has travelled extensively and is articulate in English and Spanish, but his true homeland is very much the French language. He spends his time between France (Nice, Paris and Brittany), and Albuquerque New Mexico.He has published more than 40 books since he won the Renaudot Prize in 1963, age 23, with Le Procès-verbal (The Interrogation), and his works have been translated around the world into 36 languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099530473 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099530473 |
| Title | The Book of Flights |
| Author | J M G Le Clezio |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-11-27 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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