Alien Hearts
New York : New York Review Books, [2009]
Format: Book
Description: xiii, 177 pages ; 21 cm.
Alien Hearts "was the last novel that Guy de Maupassant completed before succumbing to the effects of tertiary syphilis of which he was to die at forty-three. It is the most original and surprising of his novels and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. "Alien Hearts "is the story of lovers bound by bitterness as much as by passion. Maupassant's hero falls for a woman of the world, a glacially dazzling beauty whose past with an abusive husband leads her to hold him-and everyone-at arm's length. He seeks solace with a servant girl, but remains racked by pointless infatuation.
Series: New York Review Books classics.
ISBN:
9781590172605 (alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Maupassant | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
LITERATURE Mau | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |