The incorrigible optimists club
Guenassia, Jean-Michel, 1950-2014
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Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the immigrant quarter, 12-year-old Michel Marin is drawn to the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world. But as the sun sinks and the plastic players spin, Michel's concentration is not on the game, but on the huddle of men gathered in the shadows of a back room. Past the bar, behind a partly drawn curtain, the Incorrigible Optimists Club introduces Michel to a world beyond the boundaries of his childhood experience, a world of history, ideas and politics shaped by their own personal experiences.
Main title:
The incorrigible optimists club / Jean-Michel Guenassia.
Author:
Guenassia, Jean-Michel, 1950-, authorCameron, Euan, translator
Imprint:
London : Atlantic Books, 2014.
Collation:
640 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781848875418 (pbk)9781782394044 (ebook)184887541X
Dewey class:
843.9'2
Language:
EnglishFrench
Subject:
BRN:
898194
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