Eleven minutes : a novel / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
Maria, a strong, sensual young woman who grabs our sympathy from the first, as she suffers unrequited love as a child, learns a bit about sex as a teenager and, at 19, makes the ill-advised decision to leave Rio on a Swedish stranger's promise of fame and fortune. Maria's trials and triumphs-she goes from restaurant dancer to high-class prostitute-would make for an entertaining if rather prosaic novel, but Coelho, unfortunately, does not leave it there. Instead, he embarks on a philosophical exploration of sexual love, using Maria's increasingly ponderous and pseudo-philosophical diary entries as a means for expounding on the nature of sexual desire, passion and love. At the end, the story boils down to a rather predictable romance tarted up with a few sexy trappings.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060589272
- ISBN: 9780060589271
- Physical Description: 273 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Collins Publishers, 2003.
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General Note: | Given in memory of Amanda Shetlar by Charles Shetlar. |
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Subject: | Brazilians > Switzerland > Geneva > Fiction. Prostitutes > Brazil > Fiction. Shetlar, Amanda. > memorial, > 2010-2011. Shetlar, Charles. > 2010-2011, donor. |
Genre: | Fiction. |
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Marion Library | FIC COE (Text) | 37810434948005 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |