Sweet Death: A NovelOverlook Press, 1987 - 130 pages Told 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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... lips with a lacy hem . To renew this most fleeting of pleasures as quickly as possible , I went out in spite of the cold to buy three more cans . Greed and excitement helped me overcome the pros- pect of climbing seven flights of stairs ...
... lips with a lacy hem . To renew this most fleeting of pleasures as quickly as possible , I went out in spite of the cold to buy three more cans . Greed and excitement helped me overcome the pros- pect of climbing seven flights of stairs ...
Page 39
... lips trembled with the anticipated pleasure of a universally acclaimed dessert whose success lay in a secret dose of tenderness and malice . Outside , endless water , a deluge , that I alone might live to tell my tale . A gray mist soon ...
... lips trembled with the anticipated pleasure of a universally acclaimed dessert whose success lay in a secret dose of tenderness and malice . Outside , endless water , a deluge , that I alone might live to tell my tale . A gray mist soon ...
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... lips . The mother resented me . Barely concealed distaste , just below the surface . I'd deprived her of a complicity she thought was hers alone . I was rather pleased with myself . She made the little girl get off before their expected ...
... lips . The mother resented me . Barely concealed distaste , just below the surface . I'd deprived her of a complicity she thought was hers alone . I was rather pleased with myself . She made the little girl get off before their expected ...
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