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The Incorrigible Optimists Club
Jean-Michel Guenassia
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Description for The Incorrigible Optimists Club
Paperback. The European bestseller (over 650,000 copies sold), The Incorrigible Optimists Club is a truly lovable novel of growing up and of idealism and disappointment Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 43. Weight in Grams: 470.
Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marini - amateur photographer and compulsive reader - is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world - of rock 'n' roll and of the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration is not on the game, but on the huddle of men gathered in the shadows of a back room...
Past the bar, behind a partly drawn curtain, a group ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848875425
SKU
V9781848875425
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Jean-Michel Guenassia
Jean-Michel Guenassia was born in Algeria, 1950. He is a prolific screenwriter and he lives in France.
Reviews for The Incorrigible Optimists Club
Extraordinary... The Incorrigible Optimists Club feels as if you are witnessing the birth of a true, great novelist
Lire
A debut, a door-stopper, a masterpiece
La Parisienne
Powerful, deep, sad and joyful... A debut novel of staggering mastery
L'Express
Masterful... By turns comical, sad and genuine. It captured our hearts.
L'Humanite
A ... Read more
Lire
A debut, a door-stopper, a masterpiece
La Parisienne
Powerful, deep, sad and joyful... A debut novel of staggering mastery
L'Express
Masterful... By turns comical, sad and genuine. It captured our hearts.
L'Humanite
A ... Read more