Virginie: Her Two Lives

By John Hawkes

Book Overview

The story within this beautiful limited edition is about Virginie, an 11-year-old girl leading two lives - one as a servant to the aristocratic Seigneur, a creator of erotically receptive women for the decadent nobility, in 1740; the other as the young sister to a Parisian taxi driver, a patron of a circle of prostitutes, in 1945.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881840548
• ISBN13: 9780881840544
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

I Return There

Needless to say which of the two reviewers (as I currently post) I tend to agree with. Apart from anything else this book has my favourite-of-all-time definition of love: "Innocence is the clarity with which the self shows forth the self. Love is the respect we feel for innocence."