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Justine (A Virago V) (Paperback)

by Alice Thompson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 137 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (10 April 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1860493068
  • ISBN-13: 978-1860493065
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 722,573 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The tale of a man's obsession with a woman, or is it two women? Justine has a twin sister, and the narrator is increasingly unsure as to the real identity of the woman he desires. Alluding to the Marquis de Sade's work of the same name, the novel explores the line between imagination and reality.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous, Decadent . . and wise., 8 Feb 2003
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This astonishing first novel tells the tale of an opium smoking aesthete's obsessive desire and pursuit of a mysterious femme fatale through the streets of contemporary London. The style is fabulously rich and dreamy, evoking Huysmans and the 1890s as much as the 1990s. The references to De Sade are overt, but Sadegh Hedayat's legendary cult novel 'The Blind Owl' also seems a likely influence.

The plot is an intriguing puzzle that opens out beyond mere tricksiness into a deadly accurate study of the nature of male infatuation. So accurate that it was initially a surprise that a woman writer should understand these things so precisely - but then, who better?

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