Ellis Island / Georges Perec ; translated from the French by Harry Mathews ; and with an afterword by Mónica de la Torre.
"Georges Perec, employing prose meditations, lists, and inventories (of countries of origin, of what the immigrants carried), conjures up in Ellis Island the sixteen million people who, between 1890 and 1954, arrived as foreigners and stayed on to become Americans. Perec (who by the age of nine...
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| Other title: | Récits d'Ellis Island. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
New Directions Publishing Corporation,
2021.
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| Edition: | First New Directions edition. |
| Series: | New Directions paperbook ;
1491. |
| Subjects: |
Norlin Library - Stacks
| Call Number: |
JV6450.P4713 2021
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| JV6450.P4713 2021 | Available Place a Hold |