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  • Paperback: 152 pages
  • Publisher: Swallow Press; 1st edition (January 1, 1959)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0804001812
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804001816
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,466,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful By A Customer on October 21, 1999
Format: Paperback
Evocative, dreamlike portrayal of woman and soul. Much substance, deeply layered. Imagery is gritty, beautiful, real, and stylish simultaneously. Everything is described until you feel dreams are tanglible. Bless you Anais!!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By R. Duffie on June 23, 2012
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I could be missing something, but this novel seems unbalanced. Maybe because it was pieced and re-pieced together in several different ways at several different times?

Also, she has mentioned her characters aren't necessarily understood in the typical sense because she really focuses on their subjective experienc0es.

And I tried to remain cognizant of that, while experiencing character portrayals that seemed to contradict themselves. However, for me if just detracted from the story. It seemed almost as if she were going out of her way to be gratuitously melodramatic and analytical.

And it reminded me once again of how painful it can be to either feel too much or know somebody who feels too much.

That said, this book contains some absolutely beautiful phrases and penetrating insights, as is typical of Anais Nin.

I prefer her diaries and 'The Spy in the House of Love' to this book. That's just my opinion.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By Lorelei Hutchings on December 26, 2014
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if you've never read Anais Nin, start here. start now.
her words are like fine water colors on silk, twisted around into words, free only to be seen again with in your minds eye. She put words to feelings and emotions I did not know could be described, or that they ever existed at all beyond the inside's of my own chest.
just buy this book. you won't be disappointed.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By 4FatPaws on May 23, 2012
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Hold the horses. That's writing. In twists and wends that surprise and fascinate and make much of what passes as a bestseller today trite, soft and forgettable by comparrison. Perhaps it's impossible for writing like this to survive in the pop age of 140 characters or less. We're richer that books like this exist.
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Having gone through Anais Nin's diaries several times I'm now into the novels. They have the same brilliant prose, but, being more contrived they are not as satisfying. They are, however, a good read and worth the time and effort.
What's fun for me in these novels is to see how she takes characteristics of herself and people she knows to construct her fictional characters. In essense these are games of mix and match with people one already knows, coupled with long philosophical disquisitions on their characters and problems. Truly Nin created a brilliant volume of work in her lifetime. And for a guy they go a long way toward answering Freud's question, "What do women want?"
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