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Diary Of A Body
Daniel Pennac
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Description for Diary Of A Body
Paperback. A French counterpart to Adrian Mole, by one of Europe's best-loved comic writers Translator(s): Waters, Alyson. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 224.
From a particularly humiliating accident at scout camp, to the final stages of terminal illness, Daniel Pennac's warm, witty and heart-breaking novel shows the rise and fall of an ordinary man, told through his observations of his own body. It is with damp eyes (not to mention underpants) that our narrator begins his diary, seeking through it to come to terms with the demoralising quirks of his fleshy confines. Through the joys and horrors of puberty to the triumphs of adolescence, we grow to love him through every growth, leak and wound, as he finds himself developing muscles, falling ... Read more
From a particularly humiliating accident at scout camp, to the final stages of terminal illness, Daniel Pennac's warm, witty and heart-breaking novel shows the rise and fall of an ordinary man, told through his observations of his own body. It is with damp eyes (not to mention underpants) that our narrator begins his diary, seeking through it to come to terms with the demoralising quirks of his fleshy confines. Through the joys and horrors of puberty to the triumphs of adolescence, we grow to love him through every growth, leak and wound, as he finds himself developing muscles, falling ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
223g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782060987
SKU
V9781782060987
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About Daniel Pennac
Daniel Pennac was born in 1944 in Morocco. He was a teacher before becoming a writer of books for children and a series of hugely successful humorous novels. A continued interest in education and social affairs led to his book The Rights of the Reader, and thereafter to School Blues, for which he won the Prix Renaudot.
Reviews for Diary Of A Body
It's all here, in sharp detail. No orifice or appendage can withhold any secrets from Pennac, neither secretion nor emission... Here is the story of every fibre of our bodies
Patrick Granville
Figaro
In the style of Jean-Jacques Rousseau... Daniel Pennac sets off on an astounding, utterly unique literary adventure
Jean-Claud Raspiengeas
La Croix
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Patrick Granville
Figaro
In the style of Jean-Jacques Rousseau... Daniel Pennac sets off on an astounding, utterly unique literary adventure
Jean-Claud Raspiengeas
La Croix
... Read more