The first man /
A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who obtai...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Knopf,
1995
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| Summary: | A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who obtained for him a scholarship, first step on the road to the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/ Basbanes copy 2 pieces of ephemera. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 325 pages ; 19 cm |
| ISBN: | 0679439374 9780679439370 0679768165 9780679768166 |