Hardcover, 115 pages
English language
Published Jan. 24, 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf.
Hardcover, 115 pages
English language
Published Jan. 24, 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf, Knopf.
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