Récits d'Ellis Island

histoires d'errance et d'espoir

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Récits d'Ellis Island

histoires d'errance et d'espoir

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The French novelist Georges Perec, whose Life: A User's Manual has been called a landmark of contemporary literature, has continually captured the American imagination, most recently with the publication of A Void, a novel written without the letter e. Ellis Island holds us in thrall once again. With poetic grace, insistent questioning, and a stunning carousel of images, Perec and filmmaker Robert Bober open our eyes to the intriguing blend of permanence and transience that is Ellis Island.

In lyrical prose, they explore their personal relationships to the themes of diaspora and identity, then interview men and women who, as children, arrived at Ellis Island full of hope and dreams about their new lives in America. Ellis Island offers a whole new presentation of the immigrant experience.

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Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 145.
At head of title: Institut national de l'audiovisuel.

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Paris

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
325/.1/0973
Library of Congress
JV6450 .P47 1980

The Physical Object

Pagination
149 p., [24] p. of plates :
Number of pages
149

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL4172275M
ISBN 10
2732000086
LCCN
80155343
OCLC/WorldCat
12237264, 10984498
LibraryThing
39047
Goodreads
4634050

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OL1715336W

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