Balzac
Subtitle: A Biography
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: January 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9780393313871
First sentence: NOTHING IS insignificant,' Balzac declares, characteristically - the mother's diet, the father's virility, and, most important of all, the 'posture' of the parents at the moment of conception.