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The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts by J.M.G. Le Clezio (Hardcover, 2003)

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Set largely in locations along the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict with great compassion the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this privileged region. Distinguished French writer J.M.G. Le Clezio lends his voice to the dispossessed and explores his familiar themes of alienation, immigration, poverty, violence, indifference, and the loss of beauty and innocence. In one story a young woman encounters the violence of a gang of masked bikers in a harsh and desolate housing project; in another a man stands by helplessly as a place of great beauty and of deep childhood memory is slowly consumed and destroyed by a quickly-developing city, an illegal immigrant man desperate for work finds himself a prisoner of those who have promised to help him, and two girls risk everything by running away from home and their dead-end factory jobs for a misguided trip. At once tragic and evocative, these engrossing and beautifully crafted stories touch upon the loss of human values in a rapidly changing world. One of France's best-known contemporary writers, J.M.G. Le Clezio was born in Nice in 1940 and has published more than twenty novels and nonfiction works. He has won numerous prizes, including the Prix Renaudot for his first novel. His most recent works translated into English include the novels The Prospector and Onitsha (Nebraska 1997). C. Dickson is a translator living in France. Her translations include Shams Nadir's The Astrolabe of the Sea, and Mohammad Dib's Savage Night (Nebraska 2001).

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University of Nebraska Press
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9780803229464
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Book Title
The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts
Author
J.M.G. Le Clezio
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Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2003
Number of Pages
214 Pages

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229mm
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152mm
Item Weight
386g

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