The Factory of Facts

A Memoir

von Lucy Sante

322 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity.Born in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Lucy Sante transformed herself from a pious, timid Belgian child into a boisterous American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how this transformation came about--and why it remained incomplete--The Factory of Facts  combines family anecdote and ancestral legend; detailed forays into Belgian history, language, and religion; and deft synopses of the American character.

• Reihe: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• ISBN: 9780679746508
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.03.1999
• Größe: 203 x 132 mm
• Verlag: Random House