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Gazelle : a novel / Rikki Ducornet.
LIBRA - Special PS3554.U279 G3 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ducornet, Rikki, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Americans--Egypt--Fiction.
- Americans.
- Perfumes industry--Fiction.
- Perfumes industry.
- Cairo (Egypt)--Fiction.
- Cairo (Egypt).
- Teenage girls--Fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Love stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- First Anchor Book edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Anchor Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle" traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the" exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother-whose beauty and sexual prowess both frighten and fascinate Elizabeth-moves into a hotel to pursue a string of lovers, her father, a historian, loses himself in a world of chess and toy soldiers. Elizabeth's imagination, primed by an explicit edition of The Arabian Nights, leads her to fantasies about her father's friend, a gentle, older man named Ramses Ragab, a perfume maker who visits their house regularly to play games of war and who opens her up to the mystery of hieroglyphics and the art of exotic scents.
- ISBN:
- 0385720432
- 9780385720434
- OCLC:
- 56994692
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