Violette's Embrace by Michele Zackheim - 1996-08-27

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Penguin Publishing Group. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Riverhead Books, 1996. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Riverhead Books, 1996. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hard Cover. Riverhead Book 1996. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

Putnam/Riverhead, 1996. Remainder mark.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. Remainder. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. 213 pp. Very Light rubbing to dj. Violette's Embrace is Zackheim's first book. Zackhiem is the author of Einstein's daughter : the search for Lieserl (1999). 'I flew to Paris to find a dead writer. On the airplane, in the bag on my lap, I carried a lilac-colored copy of La Batarde. It was tattered and underlined, with red wrappings from chopsticks marking the pages. Many years ago I had found this used copy in an old bookstore on Broadway. The writer, Violette Leduc, wrote on an edge that reminded me of myself. I bought it for a dollar and devoured it forever.' 'De Beauvoir tried to help Violette. She begged, then threatened to move her own writings to another publisher, but nothing worked. ''Certain scenes were considered unpublishable,'' de Beauvoir said, ''althought they were no more daring than many others that had been printed; it was just that the erotic object in this case was a women and not a man, which to the… Read More

Riverhead Books, 1996. Very Good. Zackheim, Michele. Violette's Embrace. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. 213pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear.