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Women's Fiction :
The Pure and the Impure
By Colette • Introduction by Judith Thurman
Colette herself considered this her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld 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 permanently transfigured by the strange power of desire. This book 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.
PB • 5" x 8" • 208 pp
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