The Incorrigible Optimists Club

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by Jean-Michel Guenassia

translated by Euan Cameron

Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the Left Bank, 12-year-old Michel Marin — amateur photographer and compulsive reader — is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world — of rock ‘n’ roll and of the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and their plastic footballers spin, Michel’s concentration is not on the game, but on the huddle of men gathered in the shadows of a back room.

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Condition: Good
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication Date:
2014
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781848875418

by Jean-Michel Guenassia

translated by Euan Cameron

Paris, 1959. As dusk settles over the Left Bank, 12-year-old Michel Marin — amateur photographer and compulsive reader — is drawn to the hum of the local bistro. From his usual position at the football table, he has a vantage point on a grown-up world — of rock ‘n’ roll and of the Algerian War. But as the sun sinks and their plastic footballers spin, Michel’s concentration is not on the game, but on the huddle of men gathered in the shadows of a back room.

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Condition: Good
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publication Date:
2014
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781848875418