Synopsis In this short Hungarian novel, 97 short chapters extol the virtues of women the narrator has known.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2000-11-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 4.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 8.0 oz |
Industry Reviews "[B]rilliant....Esterhazy, a Hungarian, is clearly in the tradition of Kafka, Hrabal and Kundera....It is one of Esterhazy's many ironic intimations in this erotic encyclopedia that love stories may have nothing in uncommon, that there may be no such thing as a love story. There are just stories about the wayward things couples do together in the name of love." New York Times Book Review - Adam Phillips (12/21/1997)
"[T]here is a vividness, an electric crackle. The sentences are active and concrete.Physical details leap from the murk of emotional ambivalence....The book's over-all mood of amused cynicism, of wry psychologizing, feels very European." New Yorker - John Updike (05/25/1998)
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