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Powerful, erotic, disturbing suspenseful novel set in Provence during World War Two, by acclaimed American author.
Day of the Bees is a darkly erotic story of obsessive love between a Picasso-like artist and his beautiful muse.
An American academic, researching the life of the most famous artist of the century and the mystery of why and how he abandoned the passionate relationship with his muse and lover during the war, finds a cache of letters in the woman’s house after her death.
The burningly passionate correspondence reveals the nature of their love and, eventually, the reason for their parting, and encompasses a taut Resistance storyline as well as a beautiful evocation of Provence – a harsher place than the tourist brochures or Peter Mayle portray.
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Praise for the author’s previous novels:
Rabbit Boss:
‘Beautiful, poetic, powerful’
Times
‘Rare and wonderful’
Washington Post
Zoot-Suit Murders:
‘May be the best of the home-front novels of World War II’
Los Angeles Times
‘A great novel of love, war and politics. Like A Farewell to Arms...’
Le Monde, Paris
Mile Zero:
‘Dazzling... a masterpiece’
New York Times
‘Mythmaking and magisterial’
Vanity Fair
Thomas Sanchez spent his youth in northern California, where he began his first novel, Rabbit Boss, on a cattle ranch at the age of 21. One year later, he received a master’s degree from San Francisco State University. Rabbit Boss, a hundred-year saga of a California-Nevada Indian tribe, was completed when Sanchez was 27. After publishing a second novel, Zoot-Suit Murders, in the late 1970s, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his third novel, which became Mile Zero, written during the 1980s on the island of Key West. Sanchez divides his time between California and Florida.
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0007110596
- ISBN 13 9780007110599
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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Day of the Bees - A story of a Passionate Love That Transcends Convention
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Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Flamingo Edition. First printing. Lt. shelf wear. Pages fine. The narrator of Thomas Sanchez's fourth novel teaches art history in America, but he dreams of Europe--or more specifically, of Spain. The Professor (as he identifies himself) specializes in a Spanish painter of the 1940s, Francisco Zermano, to whom he has devoted a spate of scholarly articles. He also spends hours staring at the man's paintings, trying to imagine the stories behind them. This iconographic detective is particularly curious about one bit of recurrent imagery: the body of a beautiful woman, which is rumored to belong to Louise Collard, the painter's muse. 279 pages. Bookstore mark. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 015172
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Book Description TP. Day of the Bees is a darkly erotic story of obsessive love between a Picasso-like artist and his beautiful muse set in war-time Provence and contemporary Mallorca. An American academic, researching the life of the most famous artist of the century and the mystery of why and how he abandoned the passionate relationship with his muse and lover during the war, finds a cache of letters, in the woman's house after her death. The burningly passionate correspondence reveals the nature of their love and eventually, the reason for their parting, and encompasses a taut Resistance storyline as well as a beautiful evocation of Provence - a harsher place than the tourist brochures or Peter Mayle portray. Flamingo, 2000. A trade paperback copy in near fine condition. Seller Inventory # 4019255
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