The Last Life by Claire Messud (1999, Hardcover), Signed 1st

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Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Narrative Type
Fiction
Type
Novel
Signed
Yes
ISBN
9780151004713
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0151004714
ISBN-13
9780151004713
eBay Product ID (ePID)
431265

Product Key Features

Book Title
Last Life
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, General, Historical
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fiction
Author
Claire Messud
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
22.6 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-025612
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"A phenomenally controlled tour de force . . . Every step feels stunningly sure. -Vogue "Haunting and evocative . . . Messud's is a novel rich in detail and warmly conveyed. . . . In its beautiful last pages, connections become crystalline, showing how we are linked in ways far deeper than religion, nationality or even blood-lines can delineate."-San Francisco Chronicle "Remarkable . . . Messud has written a very serious book-always original, intense, and gripping."-The New York Review of Books, "A phenomenally controlled tour de force . . . Every step feels stunningly sure. Vogue "Haunting and evocative . . . Messud's is a novel rich in detail and warmly conveyed. . . . In its beautiful last pages, connections become crystalline, showing how we are linked in ways far deeper than religion, nationality or even blood-lines can delineate."-San Francisco Chronicle "Remarkable . . . Messud has written a very serious book-always original, intense, and gripping."-The New York Review of Books
Dewey Decimal
813.5/4
Synopsis
The Last Life is the story of the teenage Sagesse LaBasse and her family, French Algerian emigrants. It is set in colonial Algeria, the south of France, and New England. The LaBasse family had always believed in the permanence of their world, in which stories created from the past had the weight of truth, in which cynicism was the defense against disaster. But when shots from the grand-father's rifle shatter an evening's quiet, their world begins to crumble, the reality to emerge: the bastard son abandoned by the family before he was even born; Sagesse's handicapped brother for whom the family cared with Catholic dignity; her American mother who pretended to be French; the trigger-happy grandfather; and Sagesse's father, whose act of defiance brought down the Hotel Bellevue, her grandfather's house built on rock, to its knees. Observed with a fifteen-year-old's ruthless regard for truth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of secrets and ghosts, love and honor, the stories we tell ourselves, and the lies to which we cling.
LC Classification Number
PS3563.E8134L37 1999

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