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Deep purple : a novel / Mayra Montero ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

By:

Montero Mayra, 1952-

Contributor(s):

Grossman, Edith, 1936-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Harper Collings , c2003.Description: 12p. ; 19 cmISBN:

9780066214207

Subject(s):

Cuban fiction -- --Translations into English

Genre/Form:

Erotic fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC MON

Summary: For the distinguished critic Agustin Cabin, music is indispensable to sexual emotion. Forced to retire from his San Juan newspaper, Agustin is writing his memoirs, which describe his long career seducing the women and men who were among the most brilliant classical musicians in the world.The Australian pianist Clint Verret offered a passionate and tender interlude. Clarissa Berdsley, the French horn player, was submissive and playful. The flamboyant violinist Manuela Suggia turned out to be a vengeful and demonic lover. In Deep Purple, Mayra Montero explores the relationship between sexual desire and music. For Agustin Cabin ultimately finds, in that deep and mysterious place that is the core of human sexuality, nothing less than the meaning of life.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC MON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015605

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For the distinguished critic Agustin Cabin, music is indispensable to sexual emotion. Forced to retire from his San Juan newspaper, Agustin is writing his memoirs, which describe his long career seducing the women and men who were among the most brilliant classical musicians in the world.The Australian pianist Clint Verret offered a passionate and tender interlude. Clarissa Berdsley, the French horn player, was submissive and playful. The flamboyant violinist Manuela Suggia turned out to be a vengeful and demonic lover. In Deep Purple, Mayra Montero explores the relationship between sexual desire and music. For Agustin Cabin ultimately finds, in that deep and mysterious place that is the core of human sexuality, nothing less than the meaning of life.

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