Lucy Sante: The Factory of Facts
The Factory of Facts
Buch
- A Memoir
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 03/1999
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Paperback
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780679746508
- Bestellnummer: 10008937
- Umfang: 320 Seiten
- Gewicht: 429 g
- Maße: 216 x 140 mm
- Stärke: 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.3.1999
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity.Born in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Luc Sante transformed himself from a pious, timid Belgian boy into a loutish American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how this transformation came about--and why it remained incomplete--The Factory of Facts combines family anecdote and ancestral legend; detailed forays into Belgian history, language, and religion; and deft synopses of the American character.
Lucy Sante
The Factory of Facts
EUR 20,21*