Winter of artifice: three novelettes'A handful of perfectly fold fables, and prose which is so daringly elaborate, so accurately timed...using words as magnificently colorful, evocative and imagist as any plastic combination on canvas but as mysteriously idiosyncratic as any abstract.' -Times Literary Supplement |
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User Review - dragonflyy419 - LibraryThingWinter of Artifice by Anais Nin is a set of three novelettes that explore relationships between woman and lover, woman and father, and patient and therapist. Nin writes eloquently in her stories and ... Read full review
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User Review - librarianbryan - LibraryThingMostly consisting of the very psychoanalytic interior monologues, these stories are best when narrative takes a back seat for pure poetry. Though nothing much happens, the lace-like intricacy of the ... Read full review
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| Title | Winter of artifice: three novelettes Swallow paperbook |
| Author | Anaïs Nin |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | A. Swallow, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 11, 2008 |
| Length | 175 pages |
| Subjects | › Antiques & Collectibles / Autographs Fiction Fiction / General |
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