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Description edit
A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a "she," a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn love. It isn't a... read more
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First Sentence edit
You wouldn't have known her, you'd have seen her everywhere at once, in a hotel, in a street, in a train, in a bar, in a book, in a film, in yourself, your inmost self, when your sex grew erect in the night, seeking somewhere to put itself, somewhere to shed its load of tears.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Marguerite Duras (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Grove Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0394538668
Page Count: 60
Publisher: Grove Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1986
ISBN: 0394538668
Page Count: 60
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 843.912
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