{"product_id":"things-a-story-of-the-sixties-paperback-by-georges-perec","title":"Things: A Story of the Sixties Paperback by Georges Perec","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVintage Classics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2026-10-27)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e176\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781529982732\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e119.07\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e19.68 x 12.95 x 1.02\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorges Perec’s cool, exacting portrait of a couple torn apart by consumer desire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to carefully imagined interiors, their desires shape their sense of who they are – and who they might become. Yet satisfaction always seems just out of reach.. Precise and quietly ironic, \u003ci\u003eThings\u003c\/i\u003e explores the promises of material life – and the emptiness that can follow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e** The perfect stocking filler for short fiction readers** \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorges Perec (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorges Perec (1936-82) won the Prix Renaudot in 1965 for his first novel \u003ci\u003eThings: A Story of the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e, and went on to exercise his unrivalled mastery of language in almost every imaginable kind of writing, from the apparently trivial to the deeply personal. He composed acrostics, anagrams, autobiography, criticism, crosswords, descriptions of dreams, film scripts, heterograms, lipograms, memories, palindromes, plays, poetry, radio plays, recipes, riddles, stories short and long, travel notes, univocalics, and, of course, novels. \u003ci\u003eLife A User's Manual\u003c\/i\u003e, which draws on many of Perec's other works, appeared in 1978 after nine years in the making and was acclaimed a masterpiece to put beside Joyce's Ulysses. It won the Prix Medicis and established Perec's international reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bellos (Translator) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Bellos\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University. He is well known for his many translations and for his biographies \u003ci\u003eGeorges Perec: A Life in Words \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Jacques Tati\u003c\/i\u003e. David Bellos was awarded the first Man Booker International Translator's Prize in 2005 for his translations of Ismail Kadare's novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \n                \n            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48903052099745,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781529982732","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781529982732.jpg?v=1794042268","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/things-a-story-of-the-sixties-paperback-by-georges-perec","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}