Claude Simon, a Nobel Prize-winning author and cultural icon in France, has written a Proustian novel, intermingling the memories of youth and old age. His madeleine is the trolley of the book's title, the transport that took him to and from school every morning of his childhood. Passing back and forth between vine-covered hills, the trolley punctuates the trivial or cruel events of many lives, while action unfolds at the shore, in the gradually modernizing town, on a tennis court, and in a country villa. Elsewhere, life in ... Read More
Claude Simon, a Nobel Prize-winning author and cultural icon in France, has written a Proustian novel, intermingling the memories of youth and old age. His madeleine is the trolley of the book's title, the transport that took him to and from school every morning of his childhood. Passing back and forth between vine-covered hills, the trolley punctuates the trivial or cruel events of many lives, while action unfolds at the shore, in the gradually modernizing town, on a tennis court, and in a country villa. Elsewhere, life in all its fragility persists in the pavilions and labyrinthine corridors of a hospital, where our narrator now travels on a wheeled hospital bed, set to begin a new voyage into old age. When coincidences unite the two trajectories, the story becomes a fugue of memory that has delighted critics and made the book an immediate bestseller in France. Read Less
Add this copy of The Trolley to cart. $17.62, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2004 by New Press.
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The item shows wear from consistent use but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact including the dust cover if applicable. Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs access code or other supplemental materials.
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Fine in Fine jacket. New York: The New Press. 2002. First edition. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. 109 pages, small octavo. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket in a mylar protector.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1565847342. A novel. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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As New in As New jacket. First printing of the first American edition, with full number line. A very fine (as-new) copy in a very fine (as-new) jacket. A clean, tight copy with price ($22.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Translated from the French by Howard. Fiction-S.
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