Contributions

  • Ian Monk - Translator
  • Monk, Ian - Contributor

Publication

2011-07-26 - Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign, Illinois, USA, Illinois

Language

English

Translation of: La Chapelle Sextine

Word Count

22,750 words, Guess

Page Count

91 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC843/.914
  • LCCPQ2672.E11455 C4713 2011

Description

Décidément se félicite Philippe, les baisers sont comme les cornichons du bocal. Quand on parvient à obtenir le premier, le reste vient tout seul.

Description

The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Hervé le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user’s manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the criss-crossing of their lives and partners makes up a pattern as intricate as the fresco on the ceiling of a chapel . . . Harkening back to another playful book on an intimate subject—Harry Mathews’s Singular Pleasures—Hervé le Tellier’s The Sextine Chapel celebrates the wonderful, often random, often excruciating possibilities of sexual intimacy, with something here for just about everyone—and their wife, husband, lover, or passing fancy.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Sextine ChapelPaperbackDalkey Archive Press2011-07-26

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