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Page 22
She has sized up my bulges without a word . From what she can see , I ' ve
gained even more weight . I hardly touched a thing at the table , though , she
could see that for herself . When coffee was served , she slipped me the card of a
friend of ...
She has sized up my bulges without a word . From what she can see , I ' ve
gained even more weight . I hardly touched a thing at the table , though , she
could see that for herself . When coffee was served , she slipped me the card of a
friend of ...
Page 24
The fingers indistinguishable in the shapeless mass of my swollen hands . To
hang on until I overflow myself . At the moment , I don ' t horrify myself enough ,
not yet . But I ' m forgetting the most important thing : what I discovered after the
bath .
The fingers indistinguishable in the shapeless mass of my swollen hands . To
hang on until I overflow myself . At the moment , I don ' t horrify myself enough ,
not yet . But I ' m forgetting the most important thing : what I discovered after the
bath .
Page 51
The perfect example of a polite , well - behaved child has just made a naive
blunder that endears her to me . Next to her , the mother glued her nose to the
window without a word , as if she hadn ' t heard a thing . Me , the “ lady ” who
doesn ' t ...
The perfect example of a polite , well - behaved child has just made a naive
blunder that endears her to me . Next to her , the mother glued her nose to the
window without a word , as if she hadn ' t heard a thing . Me , the “ lady ” who
doesn ' t ...
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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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