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Things
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A young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to carefully imagined interiors, their desires shape their sense of who they are – and who they might become. Yet satisfaction always seems just out of reach. Precise and quietly ironic, the story explores the promises of material life – and the emptiness that can follow.
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Georges Perec’s cool, exacting portrait of a couple torn apart by consumer desire
A young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to carefully imagined interiors, their desires shape their sense of who they are – and who they might become. Yet satisfaction always seems just out of reach.. Precise and quietly ironic, Things explores the promises of material life – and the emptiness that can follow.
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| Weight | 0.126 kg |
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| Dimensions | 19.7 × 13 × 1 cm |
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| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 176 |
| Language | English |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Dewey | 843.914 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
