The Pure and the Impure by Colette

The Pure and the Impure by Colette

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The Pure and the Impure by Colette

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.
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ISBN 13 9780940322486
ISBN 10 094032248X
Title The Pure and the Impure
Author Colette
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published 2000-09-30
Number of pages 208
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