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When You Love You Must Depart Alina Reyes

When You Love You Must Depart By Alina Reyes

When You Love You Must Depart by Alina Reyes


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A woman and her lover spend a winter in Montreal, a snow-bound exile that draws them into greater intimacy. The following summer they travel the highways of the USA, before returning to a bohemian life in Paris. Later the woman writes an account of the journey, and of their love affair.

When You Love You Must Depart Summary

When You Love You Must Depart by Alina Reyes

Breaking free from family ties, a woman departs with her lover, Oscar, to the forzen city of Montreal - their snow-bound exile drawing them into greater intimacy. Returning to france, she finds solitude high up in the Pyrenees. As she reflects on recent events, she recalls the birth of their relationship from the first casual encoutner to her rpofound experience of love. And as she writes of theri shared physical and emotional itinery, her journal recoutns two curious intrepid strangers in a foreign landscape, travelling down a road towards an unknown destination, discovering themselves and each other...

About Alina Reyes

Alina Reyes was born in 1956 in Soulac in the South-West of France. She left school early and married, but then returned to her studies, completing a master's thesis on the fantasy stories of the nineteenth-century writer, Macel Schwob. While studying she supported herself and her two sons by working as a freelance journalist. Her controversial first novel, The Butcher, was originally wrirtten for a competition of erotic writing; it was published, became an overnight bestseller in France, and has since been translated into fifteen languages. Her second novel, Lucie's Long Voyage, was published in English in 1991 and her third novel, The Fatal Bodice, in 1993. Alina Reyes currently lives in Paris.

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GOR013409480
9780749396169
0749396164
When You Love You Must Depart by Alina Reyes
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
19960528
112
N/A
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