| #254349 in Books | 2012-05-01 | 2012-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.96 x.64 x5.16l,.49 | File type: PDF | 208 pages||16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.| The ugly side of beauty|By Patto|I found this book somewhat painful to read, but good to think about afterwards. The story is set in the early twentieth century and goes through the Great War. The central character, Gladys Eysenach, is a vain and frivolous woman obsessed to the point of madness with staying forever young and desirable.
Gladys has the kind of beauty|||Praise for Irene Nemirovsky and Jezebel:| |“Engrossing. . . . A fascinating portrait of paranoid self-absorption.”|—Financial Times| |“Fast-paced and highly dramatic, Jezebel offers a fascinating g
A stunning novel about mothers and daughters, about vengeance, and an aging, still beautiful woman on trial for shooting her lover.
In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she remains striking, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marria...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Jezebel (Vintage International) | Irene Nemirovsky. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
