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Caracole

Caracole

White, Edmund

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 067976416X
ISBN13: 9780679764168
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 28 1996
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.62
Language: English
In a world where country gentry reside in decadent mansions and intellectuals indulge in passionate affairs, one young man's journey unfolds

A seduction through language, a masque without masks, Caracole brings back to startling life a dormant strain in serious American writing: the idea of the romantic.--Cynthia Ozick

In French caracole means prancing; in English, caper. Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals exchange lovers and gossip in an occupied city that resembles both Paris under the Nazis and 1980s New York. To that city comes Gabriel, an awkward boy from the provinces whose social naïveté and sexual ardor make him endlessly attractive to a variety of patrons and paramours.

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