Le Clezio, J M GBiblio.com
War Signed
197386024New York: Atheneum 1973. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.5cm; black paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; pink topstain; dustjacket; 67-288pp. Signed by the author on the title page dated 2007. Pink topstain very slightly dulled else a fresh Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $6.95 showing light wear to spine ends and corners; Near Fine without the usual fading to the spine.<br /> <br /> The French Nobel Prize-winner's fifth novel originally published as La Guerre in 1970. "In War he has a young female heroine Bea B. wander through a maze of peace war and the mess of modern cities. As we read Bea B.'s wonderful wide-eyed internal babble and her scraps of poetry jottings and letters in a diary she carries in her air-travel tote bag Bea B. becomes the perfect foil for the modern apocalypse she stumbles through.as Bea B. wanders through a territory that is presumably Vietnam - and permanent legacy of ten thousand years of war - at the same time she is emotionally walking through France and Europe" Solomon Barbara. "Only the words intact." The New York Times July 15 1973. 86024. Atheneum unknown
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