The Child

by Jules Vallès and VALLES Jules

Book Overview

The Child is a story about growing up that is comparable in humor and humanity to Great Expectations, even as its unflinching exposure of violence and hypocrisy foreshadows the nightmare realsim of Louis-Ferdinand C line. Jules Vall s, an anarchist and a bohemian, dedicated his book "to all those who were bored stiff at school or reduced to tears at home, who in childhood were bullied by their teachers or thrashed by their parents,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590171179
• ISBN13: 9781590171172
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.0"