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The Book of Flights (Vintage Classics)

The Book of Flights (Vintage Classics)

by J.M.G.LeClezio (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

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Synopsis

Young Man Hogan's journey begins in the dazzling streets of a nameless necropolis, and leads across fleeting landscapes - deserts, seas, mountains, islands, cities and great plains - to countless entertainments and adventures in four continents. It is an exploration and a celebration, glittering and exuberant, of the writer's art and of life itself.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 27 Nov 2008
ISBN 10: 0099530473
ISBN 13: 9780099530473
Book Overview: A key novel from 2008 Nobel Prize-winner for literature

Media Reviews
Beautifully translated by Simon Watson-Taylor * Sunday Telegraph *
...author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization -- Nobel Prize Committee
Full of fun and poetry...one of the most delightful and engaging experimental French novelists * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
J.M.G. Le Clezio was born in Nice, France, in 1940 to a French mother and her first-cousin, a Mauritian doctor of French origin who, being born in Mauritius when the island was under British rule, held a British passport. However, the family was completely Francophone. Jean-Marie Le Clezio has travelled extensively and is articulate in English and Spanish, but his true homeland is very much the French language. He spends his time between France (Nice, Paris and Brittany), and Albuquerque New Mexico.He has published more than 40 books since he won the Renaudot Prize in 1963, age 23, with Le Proces-verbal (The Interrogation), and his works have been translated around the world into 36 languages.