The North China Lover: A Novel
by Marguerite Duras
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1565840437
- ISBN 13
- 9781565840430
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About This Item
The New Press, New York, 1992. First trade paperback printing. Condition: Good plus, edge wear and corner bumps, small creasing at bottom corner, light nicks at spine, previous owners name on inside front cover, price sticker on rear cover.
Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels, The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras's adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for The Lover, this later novel, written toward the end of her life, emphasizes the tougher aspects of her youth in Indochina, and possesses the feel of an intimate documentary.
Both shocking and enthralling, the story Duras tells is "so powerfully imagined (or remembered) that it . . . lingers like a strong perfume" (Publishers Weekly). Hailed by the French critics as a return to "the Duras of the great books and the great days," it is a mature and complex rendering of a formative period in the author's life.
Far more daring and truthful than any of her other novels, The North China Lover is a fascinating retelling of the dramatic experiences of Duras's adolescence that shaped her most famous work. Initially conceived as notes toward a screenplay for The Lover, this later novel, written toward the end of her life, emphasizes the tougher aspects of her youth in Indochina, and possesses the feel of an intimate documentary.
Both shocking and enthralling, the story Duras tells is "so powerfully imagined (or remembered) that it . . . lingers like a strong perfume" (Publishers Weekly). Hailed by the French critics as a return to "the Duras of the great books and the great days," it is a mature and complex rendering of a formative period in the author's life.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The North China Lover
- Author
- Marguerite Duras
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1565840437
- ISBN 13
- 9781565840430
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- used books, discount books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
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