@article{350114,
      note = {"A new translation by Richard Howard."--Cover.},
      author = {Maupassant, Guy de, and Howard, Richard,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/350114},
      title = {Alien hearts /},
      publisher = {New York Review Books,},
      abstract = {Alien Hearts "was the last novel that Guy de Maupassant  completed before succumbing to the effects of tertiary  syphilis of which he was to die at forty-three. It is the  most original and surprising of his novels and the one in  which he attains a truly tragic perception of the wounded  human heart. "Alien Hearts "is the story of lovers bound by  bitterness as much as by passion. Maupassant's hero falls  for a woman of the world, a glacially dazzling beauty whose  past with an abusive husband leads her to hold him-and  everyone-at arm's length. He seeks solace with a servant  girl, but remains racked by pointless infatuation.},
      recid = {350114},
      pages = {xiii, 177 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2009},
}