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Paperback The Desert of Love Book

ISBN: 0881844853

ISBN13: 9780881844856

The Desert of Love

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Maria Cross--a woman who has decided to act more in tune with her desires than her 'reputation'--comes to represent all the unattainable illusion of first love to an adolescent boy. At the same time,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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I thought this book was very good. It's the story of a father and son who shared a passion for a beautiful, amoral woman. Although not filled with a lot of action or dialogue, Mauriac performs a surgical deconstruction of the psyche of Raymond, Paul, and Maria Cross, the three main characters, that is fabulous and frightfully revealing. This novel is generally regarded as the best book of the Nobel Prize winning Mauriac.
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