Books by Philippe Labro and Complete Book Reviews
Philippe Labro, Author Ballantine Books $7.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-345-36364-0
A scholarship student from France, attending college in Virginia, takes a summer job with the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado in 1955. The unnamed student, called Frenchy by his co-workers, is young, impressionable and ready for adventure. Hitching...
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Philippe Labro, Author, William R. Byron, Translator Ballantine Books $19 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-34696-4
This French bestseller by Labro, a journalist and filmmaker, is a semiautobiographical novel about a French scholarship student's adventurous year at an elite, all-male, unnamed Virginia college. In a delightfully witty style, Labro poses a...
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Philippe Labro, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (259p) ISBN 978-0-374-18448-3
In One Summer Out West , Labro's hero came of age in a Colorado work camp, circa 1955. In The Foreign Student , the protagonist underwent the rite in an all-male Virginia college of the same era. The little boy of Labro's latest title faces growing...
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Philippe Labro, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator Kodansha America $20 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56836-200-7
The ability of the near-death experience to transform a participant's life is by now well known. Just how life-altering the experience can be, however, is vividly and movingly chronicled in this first nonfiction work by Labro, a successful French...
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