CARACOLE (PICADOR BOOKS)

CARACOLE (PICADOR BOOKS) image
ISBN-10:

0330296035

ISBN-13:

9780330296038

Author(s): Edmund White
Edition: New Ed
Released: Dec 01, 1986
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
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Description:

In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembles both Paris under the Nazis and 1980s New York. To that city comes Gabriel, an awkward boy from the provinces whose social naïveté and sexual ardor make him endlessly attractive to a variety of patrons and paramours."A seduction through language, a masque without masks, Caracole brings back to startling life a dormant strain in serious American writing: the idea of the romantic."--Cynthia Ozick

























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