The impostor
Cocteau, Jean, 1889-19632006
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Guillaume Thomas is desperate for thrills, glamour and adventure. At just 16 years old he has learned how much can be gained by lying. Cocteau's visionary novel is a 'hymn to the cult of youth' in which the WWI battlefields become an exaggerated spectacle where fiction and reality are inseparable.
Main title:
The impostor / Jean Cocteau ; translated from the French by Dorothy Williams.
Imprint:
London : Peter Owen, 2006.
Collation:
131 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
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Notes:
This translation originally published: 1957.
ISBN:
978072061252307206125279780720612523 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.912
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
2083238
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