The First Man - (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The final, posthumous masterpiece from Nobel Laureate Albert Camus tells an unmistakably autobiographical story of a boy growing up in Algeria, fatherless, in poverty, amid silent, illiterate women. "Radiant . . . one of the most extraordinary evocations of childhood that exists in any language".--The Boston Globe.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed Camus, <b>The First Man</b> is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of one of the 20th century's greatest novelists. Translated from the French by David Hapgood. <p/><br>"<b>The First Man</b> is perhaps the most honest book Camus ever wrote, and the most sensual...Camus is...writing at the depth of his powers...It is a work of genius."--The New Yorker <p/>"Fascinating...<b>The First Man</b> helps put all of Camus's work into a clearer perspective and brings into relief what separates him from the more militant literary personalities of his day...Camus's voice has never been more personal."--New York Times Book Review<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger-- now one of the most widely read novels of this century-- in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
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