Apollo's Lover

By Eleonora Duvivier

Apollo's Lover, by Eleonora Duvivier, is a fact-based novel that reaches into the heart and soul of adolescence, into the innocence of youth, and the spirituality of young love. The narrator, a young woman named Alicia, takes us back to her teenage years when, at age fourteen and a student in a French-Brazilian school in Rio de Janeiro, she falls in love with a handsome new teacher. Shy and protected, she worships him from afar, until the day her friends realize that he returns the attraction and, in a moment of adolescent jealousy, they commit a malicious prank that results in her showing up at his apartment. What follows is horrifying, and changes the girl's life forever. It unhinges her, and she is placed in a sanatorium. It is there that she faces the trauma, while being guided toward emotional healing. This is a powerful and poetic story, touching on one girl's struggle to discover herself and the meaning of love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1449909612
• ISBN13: 9781449909611
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"