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The Factory of Facts

A Memoir

A Memoir

By Lucy Sante

By Lucy Sante

By Lucy Sante

By Lucy Sante

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Paperback $19.00

Mar 30, 1999 | ISBN 9780679746508

Ebook $12.99

Sep 12, 2012 | ISBN 9780307815583

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    About The Factory of Facts

    The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity.

    Born in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Lucy Sante transformed herself from a pious, timid Belgian child into a boisterous American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how this transformation came about–and why it remained incomplete–The Factory of Facts  combines family anecdote and ancestral legend; detailed forays into Belgian history, language, and religion; and deft synopses of the American character.

    About The Factory of Facts

    The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity.

    Born in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Lucy Sante transformed herself from a pious, timid Belgian child into a boisterous American adolescent, who eschewed French while fantasizing about the pop star Françoise Hardy. To show how this transformation came about–and why it remained incomplete–The Factory of Facts  combines family anecdote and ancestral legend; detailed forays into Belgian history, language, and religion; and deft synopses of the American character.

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    About Lucy Sante

    Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and Nineteen Reservoirs. Her awards include a Whiting Writers Award, an… More about Lucy Sante

    About Lucy Sante

    Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and Nineteen Reservoirs. Her awards include a Whiting Writers Award, an… More about Lucy Sante

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 30, 1999 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679746508

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 12, 2012 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307815583

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    Praise

    Sante has a historian’s fiendish taste for information. . . a journalist’s wit, resourcefulness and love of idiosyncracy."               –The New York Times Book Review

    "Remarkable. . . . Sante makes a reader want to know him."  –The Boston Globe

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