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Fly Truffler by Gustaf Sobin (2000, Hardcover)

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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393048322

ISBN-139780393048322

eBay Product ID (ePID)735009

Product Key Features

Book TitleFly Truffler

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicGeneral

GenreFiction

AuthorGustaf Sobin

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length8.1 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-039112

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Reviews"[O]ne of those rare, haunting novels that you consume in a single sitting." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (The New York Times) "Imbibe this lush, luminous book as if it were a drug." -- Albert Mobilio "[A]n erotic, telluric novel suffused on every page with the fragrances of truffles, almonds peaches, earth, and sex." -- Eliot Weinberger "[T]he experience it gives a reader is long and intense." -- Michael Ignatieff "[M]akes you want to catch the first plane to the south of France and head for the nearest oak forest." -- Washington Post Book World "An oddly gentle, wintry little novel, with a gorgeous primeval landscape." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

SynopsisPhilippe Cabassac has fly-truffled-the art of stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the truffles-every winter since childhood on his family estate in Provence. Since the death of his young wife, Julieta, the truffles have come to represent something far more than a delicacy for Cabassac's palate: they trigger an evocative sequence of dream visions in which he and his lost wife enter, on winter nights, a state of intimate and prolonged communion. As Cabassac becomes increasingly involved in his dream life with Julieta, he loses his hold on his teaching obligations, on managing his estate, on his waking life altogether. Set against the fading of traditional Provencal culture and an incandescent Mediterranean landscape, The Fly- Truffler celebrates a love that, by its very ardor, outlasts a lifetime. Reading group guide included.

LC Classification NumberPS3569.O37F58 2000