
The Class
Laurent Begaudeau(Author)
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Published on 7. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-58322-885-2 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the Prix France Culture/Télérama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (Le Monde). The novel's eponymous film version, directed by Laurent Cantet, starring author Bégaudeau as himself, won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Media tie-in
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-58322-885-2 (9781583228852)
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FRANÇOIS BÉGAUDEAU is the author of two novels: Jouer juste (2003) and Dans la diagonale (2005). In 2005, he published a fictional biography of the Rolling Stones titled Rolling Stones: Un démocrate Mick Jagger 1960–1969. A filmcritic for the Cahiers du cinéma and the French version of Playboy, he played in the punk band Zabriskie Point before becoming a teacher in France's public school system.