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Virginie: Her Two Lives | John Hawkes
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The story within this beautiful limited edition is about Virginie, an 11-year-old girl leading two lives one as a servant to the aristocratic Seigneur, a creator of erotically receptive women for the decadent nobility, in 1740; the other as the young sister to a Parisian taxi driver, a patron of a circle of prostitutes, in 1945.
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2 Stars on GR. Very problematic for me. Especially when you get to the last big reveal. Story is thin. Mostly just sex acts. It was difficult to keep the characters straight between the two time lines, even with the helpful color coordination. The prose, however, was flawless.

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dawn-pInk
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The most gripping opening I‘ve ever read: Protagonist is on fire and is very meh about it. So far, a brilliant bodice ripper. Another with a girl protagonist and a man author. Obviously so. But it‘s sexy fun nonetheless.

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dawn-pInk
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“Remember the ghosts of dead flowers.”
Next book on my TBR from Roomie.