An edition of Homme qui savait (1989)

A man who knows

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An edition of Homme qui savait (1989)

A man who knows

Maurice 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.

Kept 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.

A 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.

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Publisher
Marlboro Press
Language
English
Pages
135

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Cover of: A man who knows
A man who knows
1999, Marlboro Press
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Cover of: A man who knows
A man who knows
1989, Carcanet
in English

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Published in
Evanston, Ill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.912
Library of Congress
PQ2603.O87 H6513 1999, PQ2603.O87H6513 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
135 p. ;
Number of pages
135

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32464M
ISBN 10
0810160579
LCCN
99014136
OCLC/WorldCat
40783854
Library Thing
4296392
Goodreads
2100351

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