# The Child

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- Book: [The Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/jules-valles/the-child) ([The Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jules-valles/the-child.md))
- Authors: [Jules Valles](https://www.bookquiver.com/jules-valles), [Douglas Parmée](https://www.bookquiver.com/douglas-parmee)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-117-2
- Pages: 376
- Published: 2005-01-31
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Child is a story about growing up that is comparable in humor and humanity to Great Expectations, even as its unflinching exposure of violence and hypocrisy foreshadows the nightmare realsim of Louis-Ferdinand...