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Philipponnat, Olivier.
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Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942
Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
Jewish authors -- France -- Biography.
Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Philipponnat, Olivier.
Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942
Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
Jewish authors -- France -- Biography.
Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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The
life
of
Irène
Némirovsky
,
1903-1942
/ by Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt ; translated from the French by Euan Cameron.
by
Philipponnat, Olivier.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Call #:
921 N434p
Subjects
Némirovsky
,
Irène
,
1903-1942
Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
Jewish authors -- France -- Biography.
Authors, Russian -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780307270214 (alk. paper)
0307270211 (alk. paper)
9780307397621
0307397629
Uniform title:
Vie d'
Irène
Némirovsky
,
1903-1942
. English
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
xii, 448 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-432) and index.
Contents:
Prologue- I Think We Are Leaving Today... (16h/17th July 1942) -- Part I- A Previous
Life
(1903-1929) -- 1. The Most Beautiful Country in the World (1903-1911) -- 2. The Vague and murderous Hope (1912-1917) -- 3. The Upheaval of All
Life
(1917-1919) -- 4. Miss Topsy and Mademoiselle Mad (1919-1924)-- 5. The Demon of Pride (1925-1929) -- Part II- In the Literary Jungle (1929-1939) -- 6. One Ounce of Good Luck (1929-1931) -- 7. Enough Memories to Make a Novel (1932-1935) -- 8. How Happy Are the French! (1935-1938) -- 9. Children of the Night (1938-1939) -- Part III- Stronger Than the Aversion (1939-1942) -- 10. French Monsoon (1939-1941) -- 11. Hatred + Contempt (1941-1942) -- 12. As on a Shipwrecked Boat (13th July-9th November 1942) -- Epilogue- A Long Journey (1943-2004)
Summary:
Drawing on Nemirovsky's diaries, previously untapped archival material, and interviews with surviving family members, Philipponnat and Lienhardt deliver the first major biography of the author of "Suite Francaise."
Genre:
Biographies.
Other authors:
Lienhardt, Patrick.
Cameron, Euan.
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