{"product_id":"malraux-a-life-9780375407024","title":"Malraux: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWriter  publisher  war hero  French government minister  Andr Malraux was renowned as a Renaissance man of the twentieth century. Now  Olivier Toddauthor of the acclaimed biography Albert Camusgives us this life  in which fact competes dramatically with his subjects previously little-known mythomania.  We see the adventurous young Malraux move from 1920s literary Paris to colonial Cambodia  Cochin China  and Spain in its civil war. Todd charts the thrilling exploits that would inspire such novels as Mans Fate  but  just as fascinating  he also traces Malrauxs lifelong pattern of lies: claiming friendship with Mao  he was called to tutor Nixon  despite having met the Great Helmsman only once; a minor injury becomes in recollections a near-mortal battlefield wound; stories of heroism in the French Resistance omit to mention that Malraux joined up just a few weeks before the Allied landings.  With meticulous research  Todd separates myth from reality to throw light on a brilliant con man who would become a national hero  but he also lets us see Malrauxs genuine achievements as both writer and man of action. His real life and the one he embroidered come together in this superb biography to reveal how Malraux  the protean genius  became his own greatest character.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280035668021,"sku":"ByrdShop_0375407022","price":38.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780375407024.jpg?v=1780617893","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/malraux-a-life-9780375407024","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}