The stranger / Jacques Ferrandez ; translated by Sandra Smith.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York, NY : Pegasus Books Ltd., 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover editionDescription: 131 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781681771359Subject(s): Murder -- Comic books, strips, etc | Alienation (Social psychology) -- Algeria -- Comic books, strips, etc | Murderers -- Algeria -- Comic books, strips, etc | Misanthropy -- Comic books, strips, etc | Existential ethics -- Comic books, strips, etc | Algeria -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Comic books, strips, etcGenre/Form: Graphic novels. DDC classification: 741.5 Summary: The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he walks along a deserted beach a few days later--leading him to commit an irreparable act.
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| wnor - Graphic Novel | Northam Northam Young Adult | F FER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111062784879 |
Based on the novel by Albert Camus.
Originally published in French in 2013 by Gallimard.
Translated from the French.
The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he walks along a deserted beach a few days later--leading him to commit an irreparable act.
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