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Book Description
Even on holiday, sex and death are Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s constant companions... In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator—a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself—travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossipContinue
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raintaxi published on Sat, 2 Oct 2010
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Portrait of the Artist as a Literary Traveller
The last few years in my house have been punctuated (at a rate of commas rather than full-stops) by the regular publication by Dalkey Archive of novels by Jean-Philippe Toussaint in English translation. Self-Portrait Abroad, released in May of this y ... (read full critics)
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Book Details
- English Books
- Paperback 80 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1564785866
- ISBN-13: 9781564785862
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Pub date: May 11, 2010
- Dimensions: 1116 mm x 800 mm x 52 mm Just how big is that?
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9781564785862 | Paperback | $12.95 | $11.07 | bn.com |
| $12.95 | $9.72 | The Book Depository | ||
| + 1 copy tradable: → | ||||
Self-Portrait Abroad
It’s common for American undergraduate liberal arts students to spend a semester abroad, experiencing new cultures and putting their diverse education to use in unfamiliar lands. But unless the student has family out there, is completely fluent in th ... (read full critics)