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Quicksand
By Tanizaki, Junichiro
Quicksand
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Authors:
Tanizaki, Junichiro
Copyright:
1993
Format:
Paperback
GTIN13:
9780679760221
ISBN10:
0679760229
Page Count:
240
Dimensions:
5.2x0.69x8.03
Publisher:
Knopf Publishing Group
Jacket Notes:
From one of the greatest writers of twentieth-century Japan comes a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. The voice--cultured, ingenuous, and with a touch of coquetterie--is that of Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of good family married to a dully respectable lawyer.
Strand Notes
The story of Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of good family married to a dully respectable lawyer, leads the reader into a maze of temptation and betrayal. For Sonoko has become infatuated with the beautiful art student Misuko - a femmefatale as seductive and corrupt as any in the history of fiction, and a deceiver so heartlessly accomplished that she can turn even Sonoko's husband into her accomplice. 224p.
Description
Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession. Sonoko Kakiuchi, an Osaka lady of a good family, married to a dully respected lawyer, tells a story of temptation and betrayal. Sonoko is infatuated with the beautiful art student and femme fatale Mitsuko, a woman so seductive and heartless she can even turn Sonoko's husband into her own accomplice. Filled with intrigue and treacherous romance, readers will be entranced by Tanizaki's seminal novel.
At once savagely funny and timorously exact in its portrayal of sexual enthrallment, Quicksand is "beautifully and mysteriously contrived."--Newsday
At once savagely funny and timorously exact in its portrayal of sexual enthrallment, Quicksand is "beautifully and mysteriously contrived."--Newsday
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