The Factory of Facts

Brand: Vintage

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$103.99 - $105.29
UPC:
9780679746508
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
3/30/1999
Release Date:
3/30/1999
Author:
Luc Sante
Language:
english
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Product Overview

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 Franoise Hardy. To show how this transformation came about--and why it remained incomplete--The Factory of Factscombines family anecdote and ancestral legend; detailed forays into Belgian history, language, and religion; and deft synopses of the American character.