by Michel Tournier
INSERT OBNOXIOUSLY AMBIGUOUS SYNOPSIS HEREFrance, before and after World War II. two lives, two bodies, one soul? twins born to A Regular Guy and An Earth Mother. a weaving factory. A Gay Uncle: predator, Gentleman Garbage Man, prey. children led to their doom; a lover devoured by rats. La French Re...
[These notes were made in 1990. I read the Anne Carter translation, London: Minerva, 1981]. Novel first published 1975. I read this within months of rereading Twins by Bari Wood, a sensationalistic mass market novel on the same theme. The two are night and day: this is a far more sophisticated pie...
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