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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Followed by a tiresome fitting session in the afternoon : she has a dressmaker
come to the apartment to cut out garments custom - tailored for a slimming
silhouette , to hide my figure . Not one word , ever , about my extra pounds . From
one ...
Followed by a tiresome fitting session in the afternoon : she has a dressmaker
come to the apartment to cut out garments custom - tailored for a slimming
silhouette , to hide my figure . Not one word , ever , about my extra pounds . From
one ...
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And the fitting session was canceled because of anticipated weight loss . After I
left , I rushed to a pastry shop and ravenously devoured an enormous pudding
chock - full of raisins . Paris in the rain . Gleaming wet sidewalks . Water SWEET ...
And the fitting session was canceled because of anticipated weight loss . After I
left , I rushed to a pastry shop and ravenously devoured an enormous pudding
chock - full of raisins . Paris in the rain . Gleaming wet sidewalks . Water SWEET ...
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No more clandestine fitting sessions in her room to make a more presentable
monster of me . No more maternal duties . She ' ll return to the almost cinematic
splendor of gala evenings at the embassy . She ' ll flutter around like a monarch ...
No more clandestine fitting sessions in her room to make a more presentable
monster of me . No more maternal duties . She ' ll return to the almost cinematic
splendor of gala evenings at the embassy . She ' ll flutter around like a monarch ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sweet Death: A Novel |
| Author | Claude Tardat |
| Translated by | Linda Coverdale |
| Publisher | Overlook Press, 1988 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 29 Aug 2011 |
| ISBN | 0879512911, 9780879512910 |
| Length | 130 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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