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Strait is the Gate (Penguin Modern Classics) Book
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Foyles
When I saw Alissa I understood on a sudden that we two had ceased to be children. A passionate story about first love and the sacrifice demanded by personal conviction. A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems 'steeped in azure'. There he falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself - in both mind and body. A devastating exploration of aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions. ‘His most lyrically enchanting novel.’ – The Guardian
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ASDA
Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually she becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself.
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Pickabook
Andre Gide, Dorothy Bussy (Trans)
- 0141185244
- 9780141185248
- Andre Gide
- 22 February 2001
- Penguin Classics
- Paperback (Book)
- 128
- New Ed
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