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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Page 68
I didn ' t fast and yet the memory returned , clear and in full color . Thanks be to
Proust ! I hadn ' t expected so much . While I was preparing to write a few lines in
this diary , as I do almost every day , the ink stain threatened me again with its ...
I didn ' t fast and yet the memory returned , clear and in full color . Thanks be to
Proust ! I hadn ' t expected so much . While I was preparing to write a few lines in
this diary , as I do almost every day , the ink stain threatened me again with its ...
Page 98
... but his customers are eager to see what ' s in that humid rectangle of fresh
memory he holds out to them between thumb and forefinger like a dirty
handkerchief . And me , what trace will I leave behind ? How will I live on in
human memory ?
... but his customers are eager to see what ' s in that humid rectangle of fresh
memory he holds out to them between thumb and forefinger like a dirty
handkerchief . And me , what trace will I leave behind ? How will I live on in
human memory ?
Page 116
Then : inscribe every aspect of his face and form in my memory forever ( viaticum
for the final stage of my sugary voyage ) ; pay the bill for our last cakes together ;
say goodbye casually , avoiding all hint of a last farewell , so he won ' t suspect ...
Then : inscribe every aspect of his face and form in my memory forever ( viaticum
for the final stage of my sugary voyage ) ; pay the bill for our last cakes together ;
say goodbye casually , avoiding all hint of a last farewell , so he won ' t suspect ...
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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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