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| Genre/Form: | Domestic fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. First man. New York : Knopf, 1995 (OCoLC)603849811 |
| Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Albert Camus; David Hapgood |
| ISBN: | 0679439374 9780679439370 |
| OCLC Number: | 31938033 |
| Description: | viii, 325 pages ; 19 cm |
| Other Titles: | Premier homme. |
| Responsibility: | by Albert Camus ; translated from the French by David Hapgood. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
A fictionalized autobiography, covering his youth in Algeria. It is filled with details of the white working class to which he belonged and there is the undercurrent of a boy's search for a father figure, his own killed in World War I. He describes the intervention of a school teacher who obtained for him a scholarship, first step on the road to the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature.
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