Like Death

Name: Like Death
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An NYRB Classics Original. Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name with his Cleopatra, he went on to establish himself as "the chosen painter of the Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls." And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon. Anne, the comtesse de Guilleroy, is a youthful forty, the wife of a busy politician. The painter and the comtesse have been lovers for many years. Anne's daughter, Annette - the spitting image of her mother in her lovely youth - has finished her schooling and is returning to Paris. Her parents are putting together an excellent match. Everything is as it should be-until the painter and comtesse are each seized by an agonizing suspicion, like death...In its devastating depiction of the treacherous nature of love, Like Death is more than the equal of Swann's Way. Richard Howard's new translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction.

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Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), journalist, novelist, poet, memoirist, playwright, and short-story writer, was one of the most notable men of letters of nineteenth-century France. Above all, he is celebrated for his stories, which transformed and defined the genre for years. Richard Howard is the author of seventeen volumes of poetry, has published more than one hundred fifty translations from the French, and has received a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

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February 21st, 2017

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240

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Main

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General (US: Trade)

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130x205x10

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9781681370323

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25699580

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