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 Pedigree to cart. $15.02, good condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 1990 by Librairie generale francaise.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $26.41, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by New York Review of Books.
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Add this copy of Pedigrée (Ldp Simenon) (French Edition) to cart. $37.42, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Livre de Poche.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $40.25, very good condition, Sold by John K. King Used & Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Detroit, MI, UNITED STATES.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $48.00, very good condition, Sold by Goodbar Books rated 4.0 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 (New York Review Books Classics) to cart. $62.73, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by NYRB Classics.
Add this copy of Pedigrée (Ldp Simenon) (French Edition) to cart. $68.02, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Livre de Poche.
Add this copy of Pedigree to cart. $100.00, very good condition, Sold by Crooked House Books & Paper rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1962 by Hamish Hamilton.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Brick-colored boards with silver lettering under grey & blue pictorial dust jacket. A very nice copy with minor smudging, DJ has light wear to head of spine panel, price-clipped. A novel based on autobiographical letters Simenon wrote to his son.