Life A User's Manual
Book description
In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has…
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2 authors picked Life A User's Manual as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a complex and overwhelming book. It covers the detailed contents and history of the rooms and characters in a large apartment block in Paris. Some of the rooms and characters interact in a complex, sometimes dark way. It is a long book, but I found it enthralling all the way through. If you like a detailed, complex, baroque book where you have to read carefully and make connections, this is for you.
From Richard's list on which you may have never heard anything.
Life A User’s Manual is an astonishing book. Shaped like a jigsaw, and telling the story of an extraordinary jigsaw, a single second passes in the course of its hundreds of pages, but in that second the book visits so many different, extraordinary worlds, and finds a way, miraculously, to join them all together.
From Barney's list on collage novels.
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