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Your Father´s Room
Michel Déon
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Description for Your Father´s Room
Paperback. A vivid recreation of the interwar period, this fictionalised memoir is a touching and very true depiction of boyhood and how our early experiences affect us. Translator(s): Evans, Julian. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
'You can't possibly remember. You weren't even a year old...' Edouard looks back on his 1920s childhood spent in Paris and Monte Carlo. Within a bourgeois yet unconventional upbringing, 'Teddy', an observant and sensitive boy, must deal with not just the universal trials of growing up, but also the sudden tragedy that strikes at the heart of his family.
'You can't possibly remember. You weren't even a year old...' Edouard looks back on his 1920s childhood spent in Paris and Monte Carlo. Within a bourgeois yet unconventional upbringing, 'Teddy', an observant and sensitive boy, must deal with not just the universal trials of growing up, but also the sudden tragedy that strikes at the heart of his family.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Gallic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781910477342
SKU
9781910477342
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Michel Déon
Michel Deon is a member of the Academie francaise. Born in Paris in 1919, he is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and non-fiction. He lives in Ireland.
Reviews for Your Father´s Room
'Wryly funny prose ... a delight' Independent on Sunday; 'It is shamefully parochial of us that this eminent writer has been so ignored' Sunday Times; 'A big-hearted coming-of-age shaggy-dog story ... leaves you feeling better about life' The Spectator; 'Deserves a place alongside Flaubert's Sentimental Education and Le Grand Meaulnes' New Statesman