Promise at dawn
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Romain Gary ; translated by John Markham Beach
Contributors: Beach, John Markham, translator
Series: New Directions paperbook -- 1390; New Directions paperbook -- 1390.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780811221986
Subjects: French Authors; Biography
Work titles: Promesse de l'aube
Description: The author recounts the special relationship he had with his mother and explains how he worked to achieve the many goals and accomplishments she expected of him.
Notes: Translation of: Le promesse de l'aube.

English edition originally published in 1961.

"First published as New Directions Paperbook 635 in 1987 and reissued as New Directions Paperbook 1390 in 2017."

Translated from the French.