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97,196 Words: Essays
Contributor(s): Lambert, John (Translator), Carrère, Emmanuel (Author)

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ISBN: 0374178208     ISBN-13: 9780374178208
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Collections | European - French
- Biography & Autobiography
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2019019747
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (0.94 lbs) 304 pages
Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/22/2019
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2019
Library Journal 10/01/2019 pg. 98
 
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Publisher Description:

A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer

A New York Times Notable Books of 2020

No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carr re. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Malcolm, Carr re has, over the course of his career, reinvented the form in a search for truth in all its guises. Dispensing with the rules of genre, he takes what he needs from every available form or discipline--be it theology, historiography, fiction, reportage, or memoir--and fuses it under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion, curiosity, intellect, and wit. With an oeuvre unique in world literature for its blend of empathy and playfulness, Carr re stands as one of our most distinctive and important literary voices.

97,196 Words introduces Carr re's shorter works to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary essays written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carr re's creative life, this collection shows an exceptional mind at work. Spanning continents, histories, and personal relationships, and treating everything from American heroin addicts to the writing of In Cold Blood, from the philosophy of Philip K. Dick to a single haunting sentence in a minor story by H. P. Lovecraft, from Carr re's own botched interview with Catherine Deneuve to the week he spent following the future French president Emmanuel Macron, 97,196 Words considers the divides between truth, reality, and our shared humanity as it explores remarkable events and eccentric lives, including Carr re's own.


Contributor Bio(s): Carrere, Emmanuel: - Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a New York Times Notable Book), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life As A Russian Novel, Class Trip, and The Mustache. Carrère lives in Paris.Lambert, John: - John Lambert has translated Monsieur, Reticence, and Self-Portrait Abroad by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, as well as Emmanuel Carrère's Limonov. He lives in Nantes with his wife and three children.
 
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