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020 $a0810160579 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPQ2603.O87$bH6513 1999
082 00 $a843/.912$221
100 1 $aBove, Emmanuel,$d1898-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85813496
240 10 $aHomme qui savait.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93037243
245 12 $aA man who knows /$cEmmanuel Bove ; translated from the French by Janet Louth.
250 $aMarlboro Press/Northwestern ed.
260 $aEvanston, Ill. :$bMarlboro Press/Northwestern,$c1999.
300 $a135 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aMaurice Lesca, the sour hero of A Man Who Knows, is fifty-seven - older than Bove's other protagonists, not much wiser, no less painfully comical in his failures and confusions. Though he is well educated, financial and amorous miscalculations have leveled him. A failed doctor, he lives in poverty with his widowed sister, whom he sees only at mealtime.
520 8 $aKept afloat by odd handouts from family and connections, Lesca also milks his remaining acquaintances. When he starts visiting a divorcee who runs a dim little bookshop and encourages her to extort more money from her ex-husband, he begins to sow the seeds of dissatisfaction and distrust that will infect his world. But Lesca is a survivor, he will always survive in the modern city.
520 8 $aA Man Who Knows was written in 1942 but not published in France until 1985. It is the last of Bove's major novels and the most mature example of his characteristic method.
700 1 $aLouth, Janet.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr92028505
852 00 $bglx$hPQ2603.O87$iH6513 1999