The Lover by Marguerite Duras books and wonderfully unsettling

and wonderfully unsettling

An electrifying debut novel about art

violent sensuality

These three women become best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City and then climb to the top of the entertainment industry -- only to find that there is no place left to go but down -- into the Valley of the Dolls

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The Lover by Marguerite Duras books and wonderfully unsettlingSet against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a pubescent girl from a financially strapped French family and an older, wealthy Chinese Vietnamese man.