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100			_aRomain Gary _9253232
110			_aPseudo / Émile Ajar _912539
245			_aLife Before Us: Madam Rosa
260			_aNew York _bA New Directions Book _c1986
300			_a191 p. _bPB _c20x13 cm
520			_aMomo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children at Madame Rosa's boardinghouse in Paris ever since he can remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer arrives and as Madame Rosa becomes too ill to climb the stairs to their apartment, he determines to support her any way he can. This sensitive, slightly macabre love story between Momo and Madame Rosa has a supporting cast of transvestites, pimps, and witch doctors from Paris's immigrant slum, Belleville. Profoundly moving, earned France's premier literary prize, the Prix Goncourt.
650			_aFrench Fiction Tr in English _912514
650			_aFrench Literature Tr in English _912515
710			_aManheim, Ralph Tr _912542
942			_2ddc _cGF
999			_c221086 _d221086