It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times. Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994. George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation. David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which also provides the first full survey of Perec's irreverent, polymathic oeuvre - explores the life of an anguished, comical and endearingly modest man, who worked quietly as an archivist in a medical...