The Gigolo

The sap had dried up; the sap, the incentive, the fever, the desire to do, to act, to act the fool, make love, create''br>br>A middle-aged woman breaks with her handsome young lover; a placid husband is suspected of infidelity; and a dying man reflects on his extramarital affairs, in these tales of love and disillusionment from the author of Bonjour Tristesse.br>br>Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.>

Product details

• Authors: Francoise Sagan, Françoise Sagan
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780241339640
• ISBN: 978-0-241-33964-0
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 161 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern; Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories