The Last Life.
by MESSUD, Claire
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0330375636
- ISBN 13
- 9780330375634
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Picador, 1999. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!. Best known for her two most recent novels, The Emperor's Children and The Woman Upstairs, this is Messud's second novel. An expatriate, Algerian girl's compelling coming of age in southern France. A mesmerizing book. The British (Picador) is the correct first edition for this book.
Synopsis
The Last Life is the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants. It is set in colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England. The LaBasse family had always believed in the permanence of their world, in which stories created from the past had the weight of truth, in which cynicism was the defense against disaster. But when shots from the grand-father's rifle shatter an evening's quiet, their world begins to crumble, the reality to emerge: the bastard son abandoned by the family before he was even born; Sagesse's handicapped brother for whom the family cared with Catholic dignity; her American mother who pretended to be French; the trigger-happy grandfather; and Sagesse's father, whose act of defiance brought down the Hotel Bellevue, her grandfather's house built on rock, to its knees. Observed with a fifteen-year-old's ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of secrets and ghosts, love and honor, the stories we tell ourselves, and the lies to which we cling.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17192
- Title
- The Last Life.
- Author
- MESSUD, Claire
- Format/Binding
- Blue paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0330375636
- ISBN 13
- 9780330375634
- Publisher
- Picador,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1999.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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