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The first man /

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Knopf, 1995.Description: viii, 325 p. ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 0679439374
Uniform titles:
  • Premier homme. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 843/.914 20
LOC classification:
  • PQ2605.A3734 P7413 1995
Online resources: Summary: A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who obtained for him a scholarship, first step on the road to the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.
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F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F CAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PQ2605.A3734 P7413 1995 1 Available 34562000003045

A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who obtained for him a scholarship, first step on the road to the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.

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