Aureole

by Maso, Carole

• ISBN13: 9780872864108
• ISBN10: 0872864103
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: City Lights Books

Summary

Two women leaf through a book of French slang, with its delicate and delicious mixing of food and sex. A man and a woman sit in a Parisian dive, caressing each other's hands. Two lovers take late-night refuge in a beach cabana, their lovemaking lit by the lights of his automobile. These are glimpses of some of the haunting scenes and characters that people this sometimes wild, sometimes elusive exploration of desire's magical and subversive qualities. "Carole Maso is that rare creature-an original! Her voice and vision are like no one else's."-Edmund White Carole Maso is the author of Ghost Dance, The Art Lover, Defiance, and other novels. She has received many awards, most recently the Lannan Literary Fellowship for fiction.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Women Wash Lentils	1	(26)
Her Ink-Stained Hands	27	(10)
Make Me Dazzle	37	(34)
Dreaming Steven Lighthouse Keeper	71	(14)
The Changing Room	85	(2)
Anju Flying Streamers After	87	(56)
[Untitled]	143	(2)
The Devotions	145	(6)
As We Form Our First Words	151	(6)
Sappho Sings the World Ecstatic	157	(12)
You Were Dazzle	169	(10)
Exquisite Hour	179	(22)
In the Last Village	201	(12)
Notes	213