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Her Lover
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1968
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 980
A bored diplomat engineers an elaborate seduction of a married woman, and once he has won her the two abandon the world for a life of nothing but each other, until isolation curdles their passion into jealousy, disgust and a shared death.
stripped to the waist under the noonday sun, smiling as he went, a strange, princely figure, confident of coming victory.
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