A Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)

by Hervé Le Tellier and Ian Monk

In the tradition of Joe Brainard's "I Remember" and Georges Perec's "Je me souviens," this delightful "novel" offers a thousand answers to the question, "What are you thinking?" (Or, as translator Ian Monk puts it: "Penny for them?") The answers are spontaneous, revealing, ominous, insignificant, grotesque, amusing, lecherous, tragic and trivial by turns, and lovable in their cheerful imperfection. This is a book about the basics: love, sexuality,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564786366
• ISBN13: 9781564786364
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher