Jean-Paul Dubois
Teoksen A French Life tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
Tekijän teokset
Parfois Je Ris Seul 2 kappaletta
Uma vida francesa 1 kappale
A Sucessão 1 kappale
Fiecare cu povestea lui 1 kappale
Associated Works
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Dubois, Jean-Paul
- Syntymäaika
- 1950
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Frankrijk
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- France
- Syntymäpaikka
- Toulouse, Haute-Garnne, Occitanie, France
- Ammatit
- Journalist, auteur
- Organisaatiot
- Le Nouvel Observateu, Magazine (Grand reporter)
Le Matin de Paris, Journal (Journaliste sportif)
Sud Ouest, Journal (Journaliste sportif)
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Listat
Palkinnot
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Tilastot
- Teokset
- 31
- Also by
- 2
- Jäseniä
- 971
- Suosituimmuussija
- #26,521
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.5
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 31
- ISBN:t
- 120
- Kielet
- 9
- Kuinka monen suosikki
- 2
There's a lot of information here. We learn a good deal about French cinema of the fifties and sixties, Harley-Davidsons and eccentric European cars, about flying the DHC-2 Beaver, the maintenance of lawns and swimming-pools, prison food, asbestos mining, Skagen sand-dunes, organ music, casinos and race-courses, and much else. And it's not always easy to see what it all adds up to, or how it maps onto the inner lives of the characters. In the end, I think it was a kind of French/Canadian take on Nevil Shute's Trustee from the toolroom, a novel about a man who seems to be fully wrapped up in the mechanical world, but who turns out to have a limit to the amount of senseless destruction of human happiness he can tolerate.… (lisätietoja)