Lover by Marguerite Duras
The Lover by Marguerite Duras. Translated by Barbara Bray. 1985 Pantheon, first U.S. edition, 117 pages. Duras was a celebrated French novelist, playwright, and writer, well-known for her novel The Lover, a story of a teenager falling in love with an older Chinese man. In her New York Times obituary: "The mysteries of love and sex consumed her, but she had no room for sentimentality in her works, or indeed, in her life."
Condition: Jacket in VG condition, some browning, book VG, owner name on endpaper
"One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me."
The Lover by Marguerite Duras. Translated by Barbara Bray. 1985 Pantheon, first U.S. edition, 117 pages. Duras was a celebrated French novelist, playwright, and writer, well-known for her novel The Lover, a story of a teenager falling in love with an older Chinese man. In her New York Times obituary: "The mysteries of love and sex consumed her, but she had no room for sentimentality in her works, or indeed, in her life."
Condition: Jacket in VG condition, some browning, book VG, owner name on endpaper
"One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me."