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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fashionable neighborhoods , idle women temporarily between lovers , habituées
of jewelry shops and expensive tearooms , the ones who ... Sitting on a bench ,
an elegant woman in her mid - forties is contemplating La Danse à Bougival .
fashionable neighborhoods , idle women temporarily between lovers , habituées
of jewelry shops and expensive tearooms , the ones who ... Sitting on a bench ,
an elegant woman in her mid - forties is contemplating La Danse à Bougival .
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A stump of a woman , repulsively ugly , sticking her hand into a package of
cookies on the platform of the Saint - Michel métro station . A slob unwelcome in
chic tearooms . The dregs of humanity riding an elevator in the fashionable XVIth
...
A stump of a woman , repulsively ugly , sticking her hand into a package of
cookies on the platform of the Saint - Michel métro station . A slob unwelcome in
chic tearooms . The dregs of humanity riding an elevator in the fashionable XVIth
...
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The women scream even louder than they would if snakes or rats were darting
between their legs . They ' re suffocating , their stifled nostrils ... My poisoned
flesh , of woman born , flesh of her flesh . I ' m gluttonous , but passionately fond
of my ...
The women scream even louder than they would if snakes or rats were darting
between their legs . They ' re suffocating , their stifled nostrils ... My poisoned
flesh , of woman born , flesh of her flesh . I ' m gluttonous , but passionately fond
of 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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