Pedigree is Georges Simenon's longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the initial pages to Andr??? Gide, who urged him to turn them into a novel. The result was, Simenon later quipped, a book in which everything is true but nothing is accurate. Spanning the years from the beginning of the century, with ...
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Pedigree is Georges Simenon's longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on a memoir of his Belgian childhood. He showed the initial pages to Andr??? Gide, who urged him to turn them into a novel. The result was, Simenon later quipped, a book in which everything is true but nothing is accurate. Spanning the years from the beginning of the century, with its political instability and terrorist threats, to the end of the First World War in 1918, Pedigree is an epic of everyday existence in all its messy unfinished intensity and density, a story about the coming-of-age of a precocious and curious boy and the coming to be of the modern world.
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Add this copy of Pedigrée to cart. $12.65, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Livre de Poche.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $14.88, good condition, Sold by BayStateBooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Smithfield, RI, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by LGF.
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The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting and there might be a From the library of label. Boxed set packaging shrink wrap or included media like CDs may be missing.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $19.87, good condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 1990 by Librairie generale francaise.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by Carpetbagger Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Woodstock, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1962 by Hamish Hamilton.
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Good in Good jacket. Translated by Robert Baldick. Good in an about Good jacket, clipped, bumped and with some chips at the head and foot of the spine, soiled at the back panel. Red boards, faded matching the loss to the jacket, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square, front hinge cracked, a tear to the front endpaper with the former owner's name, foxed at the edges, clean otherwise. Simenon's reworked autobiography that tells the story of Roger Mamelin from his birth in 1903 to his death in World War I.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $48.00, very good condition, Sold by Goodbar Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Cottage Grove, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1965 by Penguin Books.
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Very good. Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior except for a former owner name and address to the last leaf (a Penguin promotional age). Pages are toned. Small former seller sticker to the front cover. Some light to moderate shelf-wear. Translated by Robert Baldick. Fantastic cover design and photo by Denise York. 556 pp. Fiction.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $60.20, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by LGF.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $95.60, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by LGF.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $102.00, very good condition, Sold by MW Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, G, IRELAND, published 1962 by London: Hamish Hamilton.
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Physical description; 543 pp. Subjects; Fiction in English. 20th century. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.
