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An unlikely British couple in a French port town provide the impetus for a French husband and wife to reexamine their own relationship and their past, separate lives
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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"Emily" is Emily Dickinson, whose #258 ("There's a certain slant of light") is disclosed midway through this eerie exposition by the narrator (Duras herself) of how she writes. At a French resort in late summer Duras and her companion, both publicly reformed alcoholics, espy a taciturn English couple for whom alcoholism is an apparent life-support system. Duras is unable to keep from writing about this couple and finally meets the woman, a former closet poet whose best poem would have been
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- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0679729011
- ISBN 13 9780679729013
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages112
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