The first man /
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Knopf, 1995.Description: viii, 325 p. ; 19 cmISBN:- 0679439374
- Premier homme. English
- 843/.914 20
- PQ2605.A3734 P7413 1995
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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