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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.

ISBN-13

9780940322486

ISBN-10

094032248X

Weight

0.45 Pounds

Dimensions

4.96 x 0.55 x 8.01 In

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$17.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

208 pages

Publisher

NYRB Classics

Published On

2000-09-30



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