Emily L.

From Publishers Weekly "This luminous tale of two couples, told in the spare, haunted prose of the acclaimed Duras, constitutes a penetrating meditation on love, art and the ruin wrought by time," remarked PW. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal "Emily" is Emily Dickinson, whose #258 ("There's a certain slant of light") is disclosed midway through this eerie exposition by the narrator (Duras herself) of how she writes. At a French resort in late summer Duras and her companion, both publicly reformed alcoholics, espy a taciturn English couple for whom alcoholism is an apparent life-support system. Duras is unable to keep from writing about this couple and finally meets the woman, a former closet poet whose best poem would have been Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.