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 6
It's already quite enough to mingle with them in the lecture halls . There's always
the spacious family bathroom at my disposal . The luxury of mauve towels , dainty
soaps scented with honeysuckle , bath salts of seaweed and rosemary , sweet ...
It's already quite enough to mingle with them in the lecture halls . There's always
the spacious family bathroom at my disposal . The luxury of mauve towels , dainty
soaps scented with honeysuckle , bath salts of seaweed and rosemary , sweet ...
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Outside , endless water , a deluge , that I alone might live to tell my tale . A gray
mist soon clouded up the tearoom windows , thus drawing a curtain over the
outside world . I was surrounded by the sweet warmth of fruit tarts and chocolates
.
Outside , endless water , a deluge , that I alone might live to tell my tale . A gray
mist soon clouded up the tearoom windows , thus drawing a curtain over the
outside world . I was surrounded by the sweet warmth of fruit tarts and chocolates
.
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My hatred of sweets was equaled only by my hunger for all those fragrances .
And I would willingly have munched on ambergris and musk if there had been
candies in those flavors . They would offer me fruit , a pastry , some orangeade .
My hatred of sweets was equaled only by my hunger for all those fragrances .
And I would willingly have munched on ambergris and musk if there had been
candies in those flavors . They would offer me fruit , a pastry , some orangeade .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sweet Death: A Novel |
| Author | Claude Tardat |
| Translated by | Linda Coverdale |
| Publisher | Overlook Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0879512911, 9780879512910 |
| Length | 130 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General |
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