TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Alien hearts /
DA  - c2009.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Maupassant, Guy de,
AU  - Howard, Richard,
CN  - PQ2349
CN  - PQ2349
PB  - New York Review Books,
PP  - New York :
LA  - eng
LA  - Translated from French.
PY  - c2009.
N1  - "A new translation by Richard Howard."--Cover.
ID  - 350114
KW  - Man-woman relationships
SN  - 9781590172605 (pbk.)
SN  - 1590172604 (pbk.)
TI  - Alien hearts /
ER  -