In His Arms
of Camille Laurens, Ian Monk (Translator)
Description
An international bestseller translated into twelve languages and the winner of Franceâs prestigious Prix FeminaOur narrator, Camille, loves men. One might say sheâs obsessed with them. The latest object of her affection is a psychiatrist, and what better way to seduce a psychiatrist than by laying bare the intricacies of her own mind? Camille becomes his patient, and slowly unveils her romantic, sexual, and psychological secrets by telling the story of her life through the men she has known: father, teacher, lover, letch; husband, brother, boss, and friend.In His Arms was a phenomenon in France, where it became an obsessive topic of conversation among women of all ages. In the tradition of Marguerite Durasâs The Lover and Susan Minotâs Rapture, it is a stylish, sensual novel about love in all its guisesâfirst love and married love; secret love; adulterous love; frenzied, embarrassed, speechless loveâand the story of Camilleâs last conquest, one made not by hiding or distorting who she is but by revealing everything.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 245 pages
- Publisher Random House
- Publication Date April 6th 2004
- First Publication August 25th 2000
- Language English
- ISBN 9780375506529
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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