Belle De Jour
A Novel| By: | Joseph Kessel |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9781585679089 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781468307788 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The scandalous novel that inspired the Luis Buñuel movie starring Catherine Deneuve. "A relentless exposé of passion . . . An emotional adventure." — Chicago Sun-Times Severine Serizy is a wealthy and beautiful Parisian housewife. She loves her husband, but she cannot share physical intimacy with him, and her vivid sadomasochistic fantasies drive her to seek employment at a brothel. By day, she enacts her customers' wildest fantasies under the pseudonym "Belle de Jour"; in the evenings, she returns home to her chaste marriage and oblivious husband. Famous for its unflinching eroticism, Joseph Kessel's novel continues to offer an eye-opening glance into a unique female psyche. "Truly a work of art." — The Houston Post "An intuitively knowledgeable novel of a woman's double life and the dichotomy of body and soul." — New York Post