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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Attended by their chihuahuas and clipped poodles , heavily powdered old ladies
come here to sip a very thick , very bitter chocolate served in the grand
eighteenth - century tradition . This cocoa liqueur is undrinkable without the
addition of ...
Attended by their chihuahuas and clipped poodles , heavily powdered old ladies
come here to sip a very thick , very bitter chocolate served in the grand
eighteenth - century tradition . This cocoa liqueur is undrinkable without the
addition of ...
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I imagined those ladies , the valued accomplices of every gluttonous childhood ,
as very old and very charming . I could see them in their kitchen , their sharp
noses expertly sniffing treasures baking in the oven . Their fingers brought to the
...
I imagined those ladies , the valued accomplices of every gluttonous childhood ,
as very old and very charming . I could see them in their kitchen , their sharp
noses expertly sniffing treasures baking in the oven . Their fingers brought to the
...
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Those flawless arrangements in gleaming shop windows , the world trapped in
the web of delicate lace curtains , an entire society of old ladies who flaunt their
ample figures shamelessly and devote themselves to the joy of pastries . Sharing
in ...
Those flawless arrangements in gleaming shop windows , the world trapped in
the web of delicate lace curtains , an entire society of old ladies who flaunt their
ample figures shamelessly and devote themselves to the joy of pastries . Sharing
in ...
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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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