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As a woman's obsession with food grows, the secrets of her lonely childhood emerge and she withdraws into a strange and agonized solitude, spurning the sincere advances of a young man who tries to save her

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"Countless authors have confronted the idea of Western over­indulgence by making their characters as self-­indulgent as their enemies. ...Claude Tardat, a French writer who has apparently vanished since the original publication of her book in the 1980s (this edition was translated late last year), has given us a nameless narrator in A Sweet Death with the self-awareness to embody her disgust with Western overindulgence. She becomes consumptive on her own terms.
Ironically, the language itself is indulgent. "Why do they get so worked up about it just because the skies are clear and the sun is out?" she asks while observing young hotties scantily clad on a hot day. But, characteristically unable to stop and let the question and the inevitable answer gain a footing, she continues, "Exhibiting all that skin, forgetting that the skin is just a husk holding in a soggy, sticky mass? Congregating in a mess of erotic magma?" Although it's appropriately melodramatic for a 19-year-old girl, it only works to relieve the narrator of any credibility. Often, the flowery language and overly specific adjectives remind the reader just how frustrating it is to see a privileged teenage girl die from too much food when so many are dying from lack thereof. The theatrical narration can come only from a girl who is trying to hide the fact that what she's really saying is, "See? See what you made me do?" " -Josh Potter, The Stranger newspaper, August 3rd, 2011

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A female student's obsession with chocolates and sweets is the core of this often disturbing tale that traces the roots of a fatal attraction. Her attempts to satisfy a rapacious hunger bring to the surface details of a lonely childhood, a soured love affair, tragic flaws and dark secrets.

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  • PublisherOverlook Pr
  • Publication date1988
  • ISBN 10 0879512911
  • ISBN 13 9780879512910
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