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A Biography

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An edition of Simenon (1992)

Simenon

A Biography

1st American Ed edition
  • 2 Want to read

Numbering more than four hundred in all, including the beloved Inspector Maigret stories, Georges Simenon's novels have been translated into some fifty languages, with sales exceeding 500 million copies worldwide. Now, drawing on unprecedented access to Simenon's papers, family, and friends, Pierre Assouline gives us the utterly absorbing story of this tormented and egomaniacal genius of literary mass production.

The narrative begins with a troubled youth in France during the 1920s: Simenon's early involvement with crime and prostitutes inspired the guilt that would haunt his adulthood and the subjects he would obsessively probe in his fiction. Assouline vividly re-creates Simenon's complex and painful family relationships, as well as his controversial political activities, occasionally as a partisan of the extreme Right.

As we witness Simenon's evolution into a self-fashioned literary prodigy (at the height of powers he could produce eighty pages a day), we also watch the growth - and satisfaction - of his notoriously outsize appetites for fame, wealth, and women. And we see him in the company of some of the great cultural icons of his time, including his lover Josephine Baker as well as Henry Miller, Colette, Jean Renoir, and Andre Gide, who called Simenon the greatest novelist of the century.

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Publisher
Knopf
Language
English
Pages
447

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Cover of: Simenon
Simenon: A Biography
November 17, 1998, Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Simenon
Simenon
March 1, 1998, Gallimard
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Simenon
Simenon: A Biography
June 10, 1997, Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st American Ed edition
Cover of: Simenon
Simenon: a biography
1997, Knopf
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Simenon
Simenon: biographie
1992, Julliard
in French

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
447
Dimensions
10 x 6.5 x 1.8 inches
Weight
1.9 pounds

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OL7698482M
Internet Archive
simenonbiography00asso
ISBN 10
0679402853
ISBN 13
9780679402855
OCLC/WorldCat
37112319
Library Thing
697541
Goodreads
1150994

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