A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)

In the tradition of Joe Brainard's "I Remember" and Georges Perec's "Je me souviens," this delightful "novel" offers a thousand answers to the question, "What are you thinking?" (Or, as translator Ian Monk puts it: "Penny for them?") The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality, death, and all the other things that lurk in our everyday thoughts.


About the Author
Le Tellier, Herve: - Herve Le Tellier est ecrivain, poete, membre de l'Oulipo. Son precedent roman, "Assez parle d'amour" (12 000 exemplaires vendus, traduits dans une dizaine de pays, dont les Etats-Unis), a recu un accueil tres chaleureux.Monk, Ian: - Herve Le Tellier has been a member of the Oulipo since 1992. His books include a collection of unusual poetry, Les Opossums celebres (The Famous Opossums), novels: Je m'attache tres facilement (I Easily Become Attached to People), which was awarded the Prix du Roman d'amour, Assez parle d'amour (Enough Said About Love) and the stories The Sextine Chapel.