Tropic Moon (New York Review Books Classics)
by Simenon, Georges; Romano, Marc; Norman Rush
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- 159017111X
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- 9781590171110
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Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. He went to work as a reporter at the age of fifteen and in 1923 moved to Paris, where under various pseudonyms he became a highly successful and prolific author of pulp fiction while leading a dazzling social life. In the early 1930s, Simenon emerged as a writer under his own name, gaining renown for his detective stories featuring Inspector Maigret. He also began to write his psychological novels, or romans durs —books in which he displays a sympathetic awareness of the emotional and spiritual pain underlying the routines of daily life. Having written nearly two hundred books under his own name and become the best-selling author in the world, Simenon retired as a novelist in 1973, devoting himself instead to dictating several volumes of memoirs. Norman Rush was raised in Oakland, California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. He has been an antiquarian book dealer, a college instructor, and, with his wife Elsa, he lived and worked in Africa from 1978 to 1983. They now reside in Rockland County, New York. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , and Best American Short Stories . Whites, a collection of stories, was published in 1986, and his first novel, Mating , the recipient of the National Book Award, was published in 1991. Mortals is his second novel. A new novel, Subtle Bodies , will be published in 2013. Marc Romano is a writer living in New York City. He has translated two other novels by Georges Simenon, both published by New York Review Books: Dirty Snow (with Louise Varèse) and Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (with Lawrence G. Blochman).
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- Title
- Tropic Moon (New York Review Books Classics)
- Author
- Simenon, Georges; Romano, Marc; Norman Rush
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 1
- ISBN 10
- 159017111X
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171110
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2005-09-01
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