LoginAlien Hearts
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Alien Hearts was the last book that Guy de Maupassant finished before his death at the early age of forty-three. It is the most original and psychologically penetrating of his several novels, and the one in which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded human heart. André Mariolle is a rich, handsome, gifted young man who cannot settle on what to do with himself. Madame de Burne, a glacially dazzling beauty, wants Mariolle to attend her exclusive salon for artists, composers, writers, and other intellectuals. At first Mariolle keeps his distance, but then he hits on the solution to all his problems: caring for nothin
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Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Release date: 1 December 2009
ISBN-10 : 1590172604 | ISBN-13: 9781590172605
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Release date: 1 December 2009
ISBN-10 : 1590172604 | ISBN-13: 9781590172605
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