The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Details

ISBN-10: 0394743040
ISBN-13: 9780394743042
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publish Date: 03/12/1986
Dimensions: 7.99" L, 5.19" W, 0.70" H

The Ravishing of Lol Stein

byMarguerite Duras

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Price: $15.95

Overview

The Ravishing of Lol Stein is a haunting early novel by the author of The Lover. Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life–and a voyeur. Returning with her husband and children to the town where, years before, her fiancé had abandoned her for another woman, she is drawn inexorably to recreate that long-past tragedy. She arranges a rendezvous for her friend Tatiana and Tatiana’s lover. She arranges to spy on them. And then, she goes one step further . . .

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"Brilliant . . . shoots vertical shafts down into the dark morass of human love."
–The New York Times Book Review

"In The Ravishing of Lol Stein, Marguerite Duras writes brilliantly [and] strongly . . . The drama proceeds savagely, erotically, and . . . the Duras language and writing throughout the book shine like crystal."
–Janet Flanner, The New Yorker

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Details

ISBN-10: 0394743040
ISBN-13: 9780394743042
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Publish Date: 03/12/1986
Dimensions: 7.99" L, 5.19" W, 0.70" H
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