Virginie, Her Two Lives

by John Hawkes

Book Overview

The story within this beautiful limited edition is about Virginie, an 11-year-old girl leading two lives - one as a servant to the aristocratic Seigneur, a creator of erotically receptive women for the decadent nobility, in 1740; the other as the young sister to a Parisian taxi driver, a patron of a circle of prostitutes, in 1945.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060149817
• ISBN13: 9780060149819
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I Return There

Needless to say which of the two reviewers (as I currently post) I tend to agree with. Apart from anything else this book has my favourite-of-all-time definition of love: "Innocence is the clarity with which the self shows forth the self. Love is the respect we feel for innocence."