The Butcher

Informationen zum Autor Alina Reyes is the best-selling author of The Butcher (1988), which was an immediate success in her native France, selling 500,000 copies. Her first book, it was unusual for its time in being both a piece of erotica and being written by a woman. She followed it with Lucie's Long Voyage and Behind Closed Doors, as well as contributing to collections of erotic fiction. Her latest novel is a fictionalised account of the life of Milena Jesenska, Kafka's literary companion, which unfortunately has not yet been translated into English. Klappentext This novel is a frank and vivid account of sexual awakening. A young woman spending her summer holiday in a seaside town is drawn towards an inevitable sexual encounter with the butcher she is working for. This volume also contains the stories Lucie's Long Voyage and The Fatal Bodice Zusammenfassung This novel is a frank and vivid account of sexual awakening. A young woman spending her summer holiday in a seaside town is drawn towards an inevitable sexual encounter with the butcher she is working for. This volume also contains the stories Lucie's Long Voyage and The Fatal Bodice

Product details

• Authors: Alina Reyes
• Assisted by: David Watson (DNU) (Translation), David Watson (Translation), David Watson (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9780099546979
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954697-9
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 172 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Vintage Blue; Vintage Blue
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature