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Author Philipponnat, Olivier.

Title The life of Irène Némirovsky, 1903-1942 / by Olivier Philipponnat and Patrick Lienhardt ; translated from the French by Euan Cameron.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 NEMIROVSKY    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B NEMIROVSKY, IRENE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B NEMIROVSKY, IRENE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  92 NEMIROVSKY, IRE    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B NEMIROVSKY, I.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG NEMIROVSKY, IRENE    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description xii, 448 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-432) and index.
Contents Prologue- I Think We Are Leaving Today... (16h/17th July 1942) -- Part I- A Previous Life (1903-1911) -- 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 (1929-1939) -- 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."
Subject Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942.
Added Author Lienhardt, Patrick.
Cameron, Euan.
Added Title Vie d'Irène Némirovsky, 1903-1942. English
ISBN 9780307270214 alkaline paper
0307270211 alkaline paper
9780307397621
0307397629
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