Other Sleep

"Standing on the parapet of a bridge, in the heart of Paris, a little boy is afraid; his cousin Claude is holding him by the ankles above the murky waters of the Seine.." This startling opening paragraph will become a backdrop to his subsequent memories as a young man of a childhood marked by sadness. Within Denis, a constant struggle is taking place between the sheer wild joy of being alive and the despondency of existence. Julian Green was born of American parents in 1900 in Paris and lived there until his death in 1998. Bilingual, his sixty-two books-novels, essays, diaries and plays - were written in French and he was the first foreigner to be elected to the prestigious Academie Francaise.Green, Julian is the author of 'Other Sleep' with ISBN 9781901285284 and ISBN 1901285286.