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Rent Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Published: Nov 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $15.00
Pages: 128
Synopsis
A Colombian journalist looks back on a long life and on the women he has known and loved--or at least had sex with. As he celebrates his 90th birthday, he begins what he knows is his last sexual relationship, this time an unconsummated one with a virginal 14-year-old, whom he prefers to see asleep. He describes this strange liaison in his long-running newspaper column as an idyllic and ideal situation, and his avid readers are charmed. A 112-page novella, MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES is Nobelist Gabriel Garc'a M'rquez’s first work of fiction in a decade.
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