97,196 words : essays / Emmanuel Carrère ; translated from the French by John Lambert.

Author/creator Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957- author.
Other author Lambert, John, 1960- translator.
Format Book
EditionFirst American edition.
PublicationNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Copyright Date©2019
Description294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleProse works. Selections. English
Variant title Ninety-seven thousand one hundred ninety-six words
Contents Three crime stories -- The Romand case -- Philip K. Dick -- The lost Hungarian -- Nine columns for an Italian magazine -- Death in Sri Lanka -- Room 304, Hôtel du Midi in Pont-Évêque, Isère -- The invisible -- Capote, Romand, and me -- The last of the possessed -- How I completely botched my interview with Catherine Deneuve -- You fool, Warren is dead! -- The life of Julie -- Four days in Davos -- Generation Bolotnaïa -- The journalist and the murderer by Janet Malcolm -- Resemblance -- In search of the dice man -- Letter to a woman of Calais -- Orbiting Jupiter: my week with Emmanuel Macron.
Abstract "A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer"-- Provided by publisher.
General note"Originally published in French in 2016 by P.O.L, France, as Il est avantageux d'avoir où aller."
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formEssays.
LCCN 2019019747
ISBN9780374178208 hardcover
ISBN0374178208 hardcover

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PQ2663.A7678 A2 2019 ✔ Available Place Hold