- Fiction, Literature, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, erotica, general
Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a confession that captivates the unknown man and soon inspires him to seek her out...
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Grave, intimate, character-led and spare.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Anaïs Nin, Anita Jarczok
- First published
- June 1978
- Pages
- 136
- Publisher
- Stock, Owen, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- French, Spanish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780241614686
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“The lie detector was asleep when he heard the telephone ringing.”
Anaïs Nin is known internationally for her diary, eleven volumes of which have been published. The 35,000 handwritten pages of her journals are currently located in the UCLA library. She was born in Paris to Cuban parents, and spent her early years in Cuba and Spain. Her young adulthood was spent in Paris and she and her husband, Hugo Guiler, moved to the United States in 1939 to avoid World War II. After meeting Rupert Pole in 1947 she engaged in a "bicoastal trapeze" living with him in Los Angeles as a married couple and maintaining her marriage with Guiler in New York. She died of cervical cancer in 1977.
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