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Description

The spare, hypnotic dialogue between lovers that Duras has deployed with brilliance elsewhere seems to travesty itself in this disquieting novel. The style is so elliptical as to be obscure, the characters so mannered that they fail to engage our concern. A man and a woman meet at a seaside... read more

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  1. Marguerite Duras (Author)

First Edition

Original Language: English
Publisher: Collins
Country: England
Publication Date: 1988
ISBN: 0002232502
Page Count: 128

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