Returning to Reims (Paperback)

Didier Eribon; Translated by Michael Lucey

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'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary Mantel A Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018 "There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims... Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class ... why had it never occurred to me to take up this problem in a book?" Returning to Reims is a breathtaking account of one man's return to the town where he grew up after an absence of thirty years. It is a frank, fearlessly personal story of family, memory, identity and time lost. But it is also a sociologist's view of what itmeans to grow up working class and then leave that class; of inequality and shifting political allegiances in an increasingly divided nation. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times. 'I was overwhelmed by this book. I felt I was reading the story of my life' Edouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy 'A book about self-invention and belonging' Colm Toibin

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Imprint:	Penguin Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2019
Authors:	Didier Eribon
Translators:	Michael Lucey
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-198799-6
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Literary Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General Books > Biography > Literary Promotions
LSN:	0-14-198799-5
Barcode:	9780141987996