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97,196 Words: Essays

97,196 Words: Essays - Paperback

by Emmanuel Carrère
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Availability:In StockContributor:John LambertPublish date:2020-12-01Pages:304
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250758095ISBN-10:1250758092UPC:9781250758095Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Essays, EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCWRP0W3YN

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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250758095ISBN-10:1250758092UPC:9781250758095Book Category:Literary Collections, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Essays, EuropeanBook Topic:FrenchSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCWRP0W3YN

Emmanuel Carrère, born in Paris in 1957, is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and film producer. He is the award-winning, internationally renowned author of The Kingdom, Limonov, The Mustache, Class Trip, The Adversary (a New York Times Notable Book), My Life as a Russian Novel, and Lives Other Than My Own, which was awarded the Globe de Cristal for Best Novel in 2010. For Limonov, Carrère received the Prix Renaudot and the Prix des Prix in 2011 and the Europese Literatuurprijs in 2013.

John Lambert has translated Monsieur, Reticence, and Self-Portrait Abroad, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, as well as Emmanuel Carrère's Limonov and The Kingdom. He lives in South Korea.
Publisher: Picador USA

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