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Author(s): Giono, Jean
ISBN No.: 9781590179185
Pages: 144
Year: 201604
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 19.32
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Status: Available

Jean Giono (1895-1970) was born and lived most of his life  in the town of Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Largely self-educated, he started working as a bank clerk at the age of sixteen and reported for military service when World War I broke out. He fought in the battle of Verdun and was one of the few members of his company to survive. After the war, he returned  to his job and family in Manosque and became a vocal, lifelong pacifist. After the success of Hill , which won the Prix Brentano, he left the bank and began to publish prolifically. During World War II Giono's outspoken pacifism led some to accuse him unjustly of collaboration with the Nazis; after France's liberation in 1944, he was imprisoned and held without charges. Despite being blacklisted after his release, Giono continued writing and was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1954.   Paul Eprile is a longtime publisher (Between the Lines, Toronto), as well as a poet and translator.


He is currently at work on the translation of Jean Giono's novel Melville (forthcoming from NYRB) and lives on the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario, Canada. David Abram is the director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics. A cultural ecologist, philosopher, and performance artist, he is the award-winning author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World . He teaches and lectures around the world and lives with his family in the foothills of the southern Rockies.


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