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The first man

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Semi-autobiographical, THE FIRST MAN is a sensual and emotional work, capturing the beauty of Camus' childhood Algeria. 'It is the most brilliant semi-autobiographical account of an Algerian childhood amongst the grinding poverty and stoicism of poor French Algerian colonials ...

His ability to conjure landscape and atmosphere in long, long sentences of exact description without resorting to simile or metaphor is extraordinary' - J G Ballard in the Independent.

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Penguin Classics
0140188851 / 9780140188851
Paperback
843.912
30/10/1997
England
English
Foreign
vii, 261p.
20 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995.
Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957
Author won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)