Things

£9.99

A young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to carefully imagined interiors, their desires shape their sense of who they are – and who they might become. Yet satisfaction always seems just out of reach. Precise and quietly ironic, the story explores the promises of material life – and the emptiness that can follow.

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Georges Perec’s cool, exacting portrait of a couple torn apart by consumer desire

A young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to carefully imagined interiors, their desires shape their sense of who they are – and who they might become. Yet satisfaction always seems just out of reach.. Precise and quietly ironic, Things explores the promises of material life – and the emptiness that can follow.

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Additional information

Weight 0.126 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 13 × 1 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

176

Language

English

Edition

|Reprint

Dewey

843.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K