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Description
This bestseller covers a single momentous year during Nin’s life in Paris, when she met Henry Miller and his wife, June. “Closer to what many sexually adventuresome women experience than almost anything I’ve ever read....I found it a very erotic book and profoundly liberating” (Alice Walker).... read more
Summary
Married woman meets famous writer and falls in love. Then falls in love with writer’s wife. Then falls in love with cousin. Then her psychoanalysis. Then diarises sexual awakening.
Memorable Quotes
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“I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.”
Anaïs Nin
First Sentence
My cousin Eduardo came to Louveciennes yesterday.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Anaïs Nin (Author)
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