ENGLISH

The Factory of Facts

By Luc Sante

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2012
ISBN
9780307815583
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1934403 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-10 20:15:03
Biography & Autobiography; Multi-Cultural; Nonfict

Description

The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity. Born in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Luc Sante transformed himself from a pious, timid Belgian boy into a loutish American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how this transformation came about—and why it remained incomplete—The Factory of Facts  combines family anecdote and ancestral legend; detailed forays into Belgian history, language, and religion; and deft synopses of the American character.

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