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'Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.'
Ruth Weiss, an academic, is beautiful, intelligent and lonely. Studying the heroines of Balzac in order to discover where her own childhood and adult life has gone awry, she seeks not salvation but enlightenment.
Yet in revisiting her London upbringing, her friendships and doomed Parisian love affairs, she wonders if perhaps there might not be a chance for a new start in life . . .
The first ten paperback Penguin books appeared in 1935 costing 6d each (the price of a packet of cigarettes). Since then the Penguin list has developed enormously, but still aims to bring the best writing to the widest possible audience. Penguin Paperbacks now range from Booker Prize-winning contemporary authors, to mass market bestsellers, with successful history, biography and general non-fiction as well.
| ISBN: | 9780241977750 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Pub date: | 27 Jun 1991 |
| Edition: | Reprint |
| DEWEY: | 823.914 |
| DEWEY edition: | 23 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 176 |
| Weight: | 132g |
| Height: | 132mm |
| Width: | 205mm |
| Spine width: | 18mm |
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