Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Hardcover, 115 pages

English language

Published Jan. 24, 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-4460-3
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OCLC Number:
58431922

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On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, our unnamed protagonist - an undistinguished journalist and lifelong bachelor - decides to give himself "the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."

The virgin, whom and old madam procures for him, is splendidly young, with the silent power of a sleeping beauty. The night of love blossomes into a transforming year. It is a year in which he relives, in a rush of memories, his lifetime of (paid-for) sexual adventures and experiences a revelation that brings him to the edge of dying - not of old age, but, at long last, of uncorrupted love.

Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a brilliant gem by the master storyteller.

~from the book jacket

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