{"product_id":"the-malady-of-death-marguerite-duras-9780802130365","title":"The Malady of Death","description":"A man hires a woman to spend several weeks with him by the sea. The woman is no one in particular, a \"she,\" a warm, moist body with a beating heart-the enigma of Other. Skilled in the mechanics of sex, he desires through her to penetrate a different mystery: he wants to learn love. It isn't a matter of will, she tells him. Still, he wants to learn to try . . .This beautifully wrought erotic novel is an extended haiku on the meaning of love, \"perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe,\" and of its absence, \"the malady of death.\" \"The whole tragedy of the inability to love is in this work, thanks to Duras' unparalleled art of reinventing the most familiar words, of weighing their meaning.\" - Le Monde; \"Deceptively simple and Racinian in its purity, condensed to the essential.\" - Translation Review.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marguerite Duras\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802130364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802130365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.21h x 5.42w x 0.23d","brand":"Marguerite Duras","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045190594815,"sku":"9780802130365","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b3c9c84e-ebb8-4bf3-abe2-a58bb8522124.jpg?v=1684977274","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-malady-of-death-marguerite-duras-9780802130365","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}