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ISBN-10: 094032248X
ISBN-13: 9780940322486
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publish Date: 09/30/2000
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.01" W, 0.60" H

The Pure and the Impure

Introduction by: Judith Thurman
Translator: Herma Briffault

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Overview

Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, “the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography.” This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series of unforgettable encounters with men and, especially, women whose lives have been improbably and yet permanently transfigured by the strange power of desire. Lucid and lyrical, The Pure and the Impure stands out as one of modern literature’s subtlest reckonings not only with the varieties of sexual experience, but with the always unlikely nature of love.

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Details

ISBN-10: 094032248X
ISBN-13: 9780940322486
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publish Date: 09/30/2000
Dimensions: 8.00" L, 5.01" W, 0.60" H
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