TITLE:
Simenon : a biography / Pierre Assouline.
Publication Date:
1997
Publication Information:
New York : Knopf,
Edition:
1st American ed.
Physical Description:
447 p. : ill.
Subject Term:
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-434) and index.
Summary:
Numbering more than four hundred in all, including the beloved Inspector Maigret stories, Georges Simenon's novels have been translated into some fifty languages, with sales exceeding 500 million copies worldwide. Now, drawing on unprecedented access to Simenon's papers, family, and friends, Pierre Assouline gives us the utterly absorbing story of this tormented and egomaniacal genius of literary mass production.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780679402855
