Lines Of Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: chipped and worn; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages detected.
Lines of Life is a haunting work of French literary fiction by Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac, translated into English by Gerard Hopkins. The novel chronicles the psychological tensions between two starkly contrasted characters — the cold, self-possessed Bob Lagave and the emotionally tormented Felicia Dézaymeries — as their fraught relationship unfolds against the backdrop of the bourgeois French provincial world Mauriac knew so well. With precise, almost surgical prose, Mauriac uncovers the corrosive power of obsessive love, social constraint, and spiritual emptiness. The narrative argues, with quiet ferocity, that the lines which define a life are often drawn by forces beyond one's conscious control — desire, class, and a deeply Catholic sense of sin and grace. A masterwork of psychological realism, it stands as a compelling entry point into Mauriac's broader novelistic universe.
Author: François Mauriac
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: chipped and worn; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Binding condition: Binding intact, no loose pages detected.
Lines of Life is a haunting work of French literary fiction by Nobel Prize-winning author François Mauriac, translated into English by Gerard Hopkins. The novel chronicles the psychological tensions between two starkly contrasted characters — the cold, self-possessed Bob Lagave and the emotionally tormented Felicia Dézaymeries — as their fraught relationship unfolds against the backdrop of the bourgeois French provincial world Mauriac knew so well. With precise, almost surgical prose, Mauriac uncovers the corrosive power of obsessive love, social constraint, and spiritual emptiness. The narrative argues, with quiet ferocity, that the lines which define a life are often drawn by forces beyond one's conscious control — desire, class, and a deeply Catholic sense of sin and grace. A masterwork of psychological realism, it stands as a compelling entry point into Mauriac's broader novelistic universe.