Salt on my skin
Groult, Benoîte2019
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This highly-charged novel follows the passionate relationship between mismatched lovers: a Parisian intellectual and a Breton fisherman, brought together by lust. Through love-letters and exotic encounters around the world, their life-long affair evolves liberating them from the restrictions and disappointments dealt by real life. Set in France in the 1960s, it explores the touching dynamics of the couple's relationship, and whether their raw desire for each other can overcome the wide social divide that separates them. The narrative examines the difficulties of writing frankly about sex and explores the protagonist's conflict between fulfilling her cerebral and sexual needs. Is she dominant, or subservient?
Main title:
Salt on my skin / Benoîte Groult ; foreword by Fay Weldon ; translated by Mo Teitelbaum.
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Imprint:
New York : World Editions, 2019.
Collation:
259 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published as: Les vaisseaux du coeur. Grasset & Fasquelle, 1988.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781642860092 (paperback)
Dewey class:
843.914
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
367852
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | GROU | Available |