In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates
the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in
Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters
on the brink of war. With profound compassion, Berger explores the
hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during
sex, to reveal the conditions of the libertine's success: his
essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual
experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that
infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women
experience their own extraordinariness through their liaisons with
him. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi's attempt to
unite Italy, the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898, the
Boer War and the dramatic first flight across the Alps, G. is a
brilliant novel about the search for intimacy in the turmoil of
history.
General
Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
First published: |
August 2012 |
Authors: |
John Berger
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Dimensions: |
198 x 130 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
316 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4088-3434-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
1-4088-3434-0 |
Barcode: |
9781408834343 |
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