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Like Death (New York Review Books Classics)

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Like Death (New York Review Books Classics)

A devastating novel about the treachery of love by Maupassant, now in a new translation by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning poet and translator Richard Howard

Olivier Bertin is at the height of his career as a painter. After making his name as a young man with his Cleopatra, he has gone on to establish himself as â€œthe chosen painter of Parisiennes, the most adroit and ingenious artist to reveal their grace, their figures, and their souls.â€ And though his hair may be white, he remains a handsome, vigorous, and engaging bachelor, a prized guest at every table and salon.

Olivierâ€™s lover is Anne, the Countess de Guilleroy, the wife of a busy politician. Their relationship is long-standing, close, almost conjugal. The countessâ€™s daughter is Annette, and she is the spitting image of her mother in her lovely youth. Having finished her schooling, Annette is returning to Paris. Her parents have put together an excellent match. Everything is as it should beâ€”until the painter and countess are eachÂ 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 Swannâ€™s Way. Richard Howardâ€™s new translation brings out all the penetration and poetry of this masterpiece of nineteenth-century fiction.

Country	USA
Author	Guy De Maupassant
Binding	Paperback
Brand	New York Review of Books
EAN	9781681370323
Edition	Tra
Feature	New York Review of Books
ISBN	1681370328
Label	NYRB Classics
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
NumberOfPages	240
PublicationDate	2017-02-21
Publisher	NYRB Classics
ReleaseDate	2017-02-21
Studio	NYRB Classics

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