Grenier, Roger 1919-

The difficulty of being a dog by Roger Grenier( Book )
7 editions published between 1998 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 663 libraries worldwide
Forty-three vignettes, in which the author visits the great dogs of history and legend, beginning at the beginning with Ulysses and his dog, Argos; on to Virginia Woolf and her dog, Flush; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel; André Gide; Freud's dog, Lün; Franklin D. Roosevelt's Scottish terrier, Fala; Michael and Jerry, heroes of Jack London's novels; Napoleon's dog; and the dogs collected and deported from the city of Constantinople in 1910, sent to a desert island without food and water.

Another November by Roger Grenier( Book )
9 editions published between 1986 and 1998 in French and English and held by 328 libraries worldwide
A melancholy novel on the lives of a group of men and women in 1940s France who went to school together. From youth, hope, war--one collaborates, the other resists--to jobs, class, marriage, affairs, divorce and the disappointments of old age. By the author of Years in Ambush.

Piano music for four hands by Roger Grenier( Book )
6 editions published between 1991 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 313 libraries worldwide
"" "Piano Music for Four Hands" is a novel about music and love set against three generations of French history. At its center is a charming but melancholy pianist named Michel Mailhoc. Having survived a series of bungled love affairs and professional disappointments, he retreats to his family house in the Pyrenees. The bright spot in his life is his grandniece Emma, who becomes his prizewinning student. Struggling with his fervent desire for her success and the fear of losing her, Michel sends Emma into the world of international musical stardom that he has renounced for himself. The Mailhoc family saga, stretching from World War I to the turbulent 1960s, is full of sorrow, but the underlying melody remains tender and humorous. From the first sentence we feel curiously at home in Roger Grenier's intimate, precise, and musical writing.

Albert Camus, soleil et ombre : une biographie intellectuelle by Roger Grenier( Book )
4 editions published between 1987 and 1992 in French and held by 288 libraries worldwide

Ciné-roman by Roger Grenier( Book )
8 editions published between 1972 and 1975 in 4 languages and held by 230 libraries worldwide

Claude Roy by Roger Grenier( Book )
4 editions published in 1971 in French and Undetermined and held by 185 libraries worldwide

Le palais d'hiver; [roman by Roger Grenier( Book )
11 editions published between 1965 and 1978 in French and held by 170 libraries worldwide

Album Camus : iconographie( Book )
1 edition published in 1982 in French and held by 125 libraries worldwide

Il te faudra quitter Florence : roman by Roger Grenier( Book )
4 editions published between 1985 and 1994 in French and held by 123 libraries worldwide
Un honnête journaliste tombe entre les mains d'un habitué de l'exil, faux médecin, vrai malfrat. Il s'intéresse beaucoup à Luciana, la troublante épouse du génial affabulateur. Ses ennuis commencent... Un très bon roman, par un "maître de l'insidieux" (admiré de F. Nourissier et C. Roy), très classique, et qui emprunte quelques reflets au roman noir et au polar (cf. l'article de Jacques Folch-Ribas dans "La Presse" du 23 mars 1985, et celui de Lisette Morin dans "Le Devoir" du même jour). [SDM].

A Albert Camus, ses amis du livre( Book )
3 editions published in 1962 in French and held by 120 libraries worldwide
Remembrances of Camus from people in the printing trade who knew him; edited by Roger Grenier.