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 day for sugar , a day when I ' m sometimes seized with a terrible impatience .
When I wish that the sugar had already finished me off . My body would then drift
along a river of syrup , at whose mouth death would bring an end to the sticky ...
A day for sugar , a day when I ' m sometimes seized with a terrible impatience .
When I wish that the sugar had already finished me off . My body would then drift
along a river of syrup , at whose mouth death would bring an end to the sticky ...
Page 4
I listen to sugar ' s lengthy progress inside me , a funereal pace that will drag on
through all the rest of my fattening - up . As a little girl , on those rare occasions
when I was allowed to sit at the table with the grown - ups , I ' d close my eyes ...
I listen to sugar ' s lengthy progress inside me , a funereal pace that will drag on
through all the rest of my fattening - up . As a little girl , on those rare occasions
when I was allowed to sit at the table with the grown - ups , I ' d close my eyes ...
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There ' s nothing like encountering the taste of sugar just as one ' s opening one '
s eyes to dispel the weight of bad dreams . I don ' t dream very much , as a rule .
At least , I don ' t retain any precise memory of the images that Aicker past in my ...
There ' s nothing like encountering the taste of sugar just as one ' s opening one '
s eyes to dispel the weight of bad dreams . I don ' t dream very much , as a rule .
At least , I don ' t retain any precise memory of the images that Aicker past in my ...
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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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