Justine
1st Counterpoint Ed edition
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Word Count
56,500 words, Guess
Page Count
226 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8707883M
- ISBN-139781887178655
- ISBN-101887178651
- OCLC Control Number38104596
- OCLC Control Numberjustine00alic
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number97047738
- LibraryThing408899
- Goodreads2432624
Classifications
- LCCPR6070.H6578 J87 1998
- DDC823.914
- LCCPR6070.H67 J87 1996
Description
Set in contemporary London, Justine chronicles one man's obsession with beauty and his journey through the darkest recesses of the mind in its pursuit. A sensitive art collector, nameless throughout, becomes enchanted by Justine, the portrait that hangs above his mantel. Enthralled, he spends hours in his flat, smoking opium and watching the beautiful woman in the painting. Searching London for the object of his ravening desire, he finds on separate occasions two women: Justine, a refined and chiseled beauty, and her identical twin Juliette, a complex and reckless woman who seems driven by rage. As the story unfolds, he finds it increasingly difficult to know the true identity of the evasive and evanescent woman he desires, and his vivid opium-seasoned hallucinations become indistinguishable from reality.
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