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Henry Miller, The Books in My Life
"In Giono's work is what every sensitive, full-blood individual ought to be able to recognize at once as 'the song of the world.'"
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A sweeping tale of a boyhood in Provence.
Although Jean Giono wrote over fifty volumes of fiction, poems, and plays, and attracted such fervent fans as Henry Miller, his work is not as well-known in America as it deserves to be. Blue Boy, which follows Counterpoint's reissue of The Joy of Man's Desiring, will bring Giono back into the American spotlight.
A fictionalized autobiography of his boyhood in the countryside of Provence, told through the eyes of a child, Blue Boy is written with the mystical style that marks Giono's greatest work. On the surface a simple tale of a village cobbler and his young son, this novel explores a complex interlocking, a cyclic ebb and flow, that sets the stage for the young boy's passage from innocence to sensuality.
Blue Boy
Blue Boy,Jean Giono,Katherine Allen Clarke,Counterpoint Press,1582430519,Classics,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Giono, Jean - Prose & Criticism
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