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Helen and Desire
Alexander Trocchi
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Description for Helen and Desire
Paperback. How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me here, and I cannot explain it. As always, it is stronger than fear. For me it has always been that way.. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128. 176 pages. How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me here, and I cannot explain it. As always, it is stronger than fear. For me it has always been that way. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight: 126.
How difficult it is to explain! The terribly mute hunger in our bodies! If I touch my thigh here in the near darkness of the tent my whole body is again instinct with the driving urge that brought me here, and I cannot explain it. As always, it is stronger than fear. For me it has always been that way . . .
When the irrepressible Helen runs away from the small town she grew up in, she discovers a world of excitement and experience beyond even her imagination, from Sydney to Singapore, Bombay, Monte Carlo ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857869418
SKU
V9780857869418
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-37
About Alexander Trocchi
Alexander Trocchi was born in Glasgow on 30 July, 1925. At various points in his life he was a straight-A student, a pig farmer, a family man, a pimp, a heroin addict, a pornographer, a dealer in antique books, a forger, a polemicist, a revolutionary, a literary editor, a 'cosmonaut of inner space', and not least a novelist and writer. ... Read more
Reviews for Helen and Desire
An extraordinary novel, which celebrates sexuality against a background of feminine identity and liberation. An underground book for too long, it deserves a wider public and will add a lush frisson to the renewed interest in Trocchi
Edwin Morgan Trocchi's development of character and story is handled with great sensitivity and really does merit your attention - this is ... Read more
Edwin Morgan Trocchi's development of character and story is handled with great sensitivity and really does merit your attention - this is ... Read more