Sweet Death: A NovelTold with dazzling narrative brilliance and the haunting power of an impassioned soliloquy, an astonishing parable of a woman's obsession of sweets and delicacies is seen. A novel of heartstopping intensity, black humor and passion not easily forgotten. |
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A Novel Claude Tardat. I'll hear pop music coming from the taxi's window . Coming closer , I'll notice that the radio needs tuning , there's some static , and the taxi driver has dozed off , leaning his head on the steering wheel . " Le ...
A Novel Claude Tardat. I'll hear pop music coming from the taxi's window . Coming closer , I'll notice that the radio needs tuning , there's some static , and the taxi driver has dozed off , leaning his head on the steering wheel . " Le ...
Page 107
... coming with the blow , from the depths of her hatred . Then a dead silence . Then the Spaniard's sobbing . Pus oozed from my boil . Afterward , I believe , the night was mild . Whiteheads are appearing here and there on my face . Boils ...
... coming with the blow , from the depths of her hatred . Then a dead silence . Then the Spaniard's sobbing . Pus oozed from my boil . Afterward , I believe , the night was mild . Whiteheads are appearing here and there on my face . Boils ...
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... coming closer . That's it , he's knocking here . Fate pounding at the door . It's fate's job to intervene just when the protagonists least expect it . And that's what makes it so attractive , so seductive , sometimes even diabolical ...
... coming closer . That's it , he's knocking here . Fate pounding at the door . It's fate's job to intervene just when the protagonists least expect it . And that's what makes it so attractive , so seductive , sometimes even diabolical ...
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