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Book Description
The Last Life is the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants. It is set in colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England. The LaBasse family had always believed in the permanence of their world, in which stories created from the past had the weight of Continue
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bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010
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Bonjour Sagesse
Claire Messud’s first novel, When the World Was Steady, published five years ago, won praise from critics who know what they’re talking about – for example, Penelope Fitzgerald, writing in the LRB. It was a book that showed an easy technical control, ... (read full critics)
lrb published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 200 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0330375644
- ISBN-13: 9780330375641
- Publisher: Picador
- Pub date: Jun 09, 2000
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780330375641 | Paperback | $12.86 | $9.29 | The Book Depository |
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The Last Life By Claire Messud
I am American now, Sagesse LaBasse declares at the opening of Claire Messud's second novel, The Last Life. Readers will be thankful that she doesn't tell her story American style. In contrast to a nation full of people who compete to tell their most ... (read full critics)