The Cave of Heaven

By Patrick Grainville

Book Overview

This extravagant novel marks the English-language debut of one of France's most exciting and controversial writers. At the center is a mysterious excavation site in southwest France, where the skull of a 500,000-year-old man has been discovered. Simon, a journalist assigned to do a story on the cave, is a voluptuary keenly responsive to his surroundings, finding an erotic patina over everything he sees, hears, touches, imagines."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916583686
• ISBN13: 9780916583682
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher