A Man Who Knows

by Emmanuel Bove

Maurice Lesca is fifty-seven--older, not much wiser, and painfully comical in his failures. Though educated as a doctor, he's a ne'er-do-well who milks family and friends for money and lives in poverty with his widowed sister. When he encourages a divorc e to extort money from her ex-husband, Lesca sows the seeds of distrust that will disrupt his world. But Lesca is a survivor; he will always survive in the modern city. The last of Bove's major novels,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810160579
• ISBN13: 9780810160576
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Marlboro Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.2"