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Cloth; Used. As New. Dust Jacket: Fine. Aphrodite by Isabel Allende. Remainder Marked. Illustrations by Robert Shekter. Recipes by Panchita Llona. First Edition First Printing. Biography.
Allende s seventh book follows the author s tradition of semi-autobiographical literature; it is a memoir of return to life, written after her 1997 novel Paula about the painful loss of her daughter. In the introduction, Allende states that her re-awakening to sensual pleasures marked her exit from the three-year period of sadness. The critics, calling Aphrodite an unusually light work for an author of customarily weightier literature, still praised it as a life-affirming sequel to the grief and anguish of Paula.
Aphrodite s anything-but-linear narrative is a mix of the author s romantic and culinary musings and recollections, her friends stories, world recipes, excerpts from erotic texts, folktales, mythology, anthropology, poetry, travel writing, ancient and historical anecdotes, even gossip. In Allende s words, Aphrodite is a mapless journey through the regions of sensual memory, in which the boundaries between love and appetite are so diffuse that at times they evaporate completely.
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