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Duras, Marguerite The Lover
Fontana Paperbacks 1986 0-00-654159-3 / 9780006541592 1st Edition Paperback
Paperback in overall good condition, pages yellowing and sun fading to cover. 1986 1st Fontana/Flamingo edition. Our cover different to one shown.From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister - It is said old loves can haunt us. The Lover creates this feeling through an atmosphereof shadows, veils, floating memories that came from - was it this boat tripor the last one? from age eight or twelve or thirty? In the end it doesn'tmatter, for the experience is now embedded, a distinct yet inseparable part of the personality. Marguerite Duras mines her own past to tell The Lover, the story of an adolescent girl growing up in Indochina during the 1930s.The girl is wayward, rebellious; one day, returning to school on the ferry, dressed in gold lame shoes, a man's hat and a silk dress, she encountersthe son of a Chinese millionaire. Soon they are involved in the first affair of her life, one she claims has no basis in love for her. He can never marry her - his father has refused - and she says she will leave without regrets. But is that possible? Years later she looks back. By presenting ideasand memories in paragraphs that are literally isolated yet constantly overlapping, The Lover creates a misty world of connections made by emotion rather than logic or chronology, a feeling that lingers after the book itself is closed.An international best-seller with more than one million copies in print anda winner of France's Prix Goncourt, The Lover has been acclaimed by critics all over the world since its first publication in 1984.Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tal
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