| Blue Boy Contributor(s): Giono, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: 1582430519 ISBN-13: 9781582430515 Publisher: Counterpoint LLC OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99046034 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.01" W x 8.02" (0.50 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This novel is a fictionalized autobiography of the author's boyhood in the the countryside of Provence, told through the eyes of a child. Blue Boy is a 1932 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional anecdotes. |
