The story within this beautiful limited edition is about Virginie, an 11-year-old girl leading two lives — one as a servant to the aristocratic Seigneur, a creator of erotically receptive women for the decadent nobility, in 1740; the other as the young sister to a Parisian taxi driver, a patron of a circle of prostitutes, in 1945.
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John Hawkes (1925–1998) was one of the most innovative and widely regarded novelists of the twentieth century. Born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University, Hawkes taught at Brown University for thirty years. Praised by Leslie Fiedler, Flannery O’Connor, and William H. Gass, who wrote, “when it comes to the engravement of the sentence . . . no one can match him,” Hawkes was the author of numerous acclaimed novels, including The Lime Twig, The Beetle Leg, Second Skin, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade and The Passion Artist.
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I Return There,
By Ben Naga "Ben Naga" (Cumbria, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Virginie: Her Two Lives (Paperback)
Needless to say which of the two reviewers (as I currently post) I tend to agree with. Apart from anything else this book has my favourite-of-all-time definition of love:
"Innocence is the clarity with which the self shows forth the self. Love is the respect we feel for innocence."
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One of the worst books ever,
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This book is terrible, from the ridiculous plots to the decidedly unsexy erotic scenes. Avoid unless you like really bad prose for its camp value.
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Bel Esprit, Madame Pidou, Monsieur Malmort, Monsieur Moreau, Monsieur Pidou, Soeur Doucette, Pire La Tour, Sex Arcade, Tapestry of Love, Couvent Sainte, Land of Love, Mother Superior, Morning of the Noblesse New!
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Bel Esprit, Madame Pidou, Monsieur Malmort, Monsieur Moreau, Monsieur Pidou, Soeur Doucette, Pire La Tour, Sex Arcade, Tapestry of Love, Couvent Sainte, Land of Love, Mother Superior, Morning of the Noblesse New!
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