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The Only Son
Stéphane Audeguy
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9780151013296 Hardcover
0151013292
$25.00
256pages
September 2008
Trim Size:
5 5/8 x 8-1/4
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Territory:
World English
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Synopsis |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions his older brother François only two times in his classic Confessions. In The Only Son, Stéphane Audeguy resurrects Rousseau's forgotten brother in a picaresque tale that brings to life the secret world of eighteenth-century Paris.
Instructed at an early age in the philosophy of libertinage by a decadent aristocrat and later apprenticed to a clock maker, François is ultimately disowned by his family and flees to Paris's underworld. There he finds work in a brothel that caters to politicians and clergy and begins his personal study of the varieties of sexual desire—to its most arcane proclivities. Audeguy uses the libertine's progress to explore the interplay between the individual and society, much in the tradition of Jean-Jacques, but with a very different emphasis. Bold, erotic, and historically fascinating, The Only Son is, in many ways, the anti-Confessions—François' own, decidedly different, portrait of human nature.
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Biography |
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STÉPHANE AUDEGUY lives in Paris, where he teaches the history of cinema and arts.
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Fiction- Historical
History- Europe/France
Fiction- General
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Serial/ UK: Harcourt
Audio/ Translation/ Performance: Gallimard
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Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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