Description
Told in the voice of Claude, a middle-aged bachelor with a carefully ordered life, this novel follows his sudden, willing surrender to Alexandra—“Alex”—whose presence ignites an erotic and emotional awakening he can’t control. As their connection deepens, the story unfolds as a slowly shocking odyssey of desire and devotion, moving from tenderness to unease with a bittersweet inevitability. Valerie Martin’s spare, incisive style turns intimacy into a lens for obsession, power, and the fragile line between love and self-destruction. With its chilling undercurrent and morally complex portrait of longing, Alexandra is both a romance and a warning about what happens when need becomes fate.
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Black Swan
Published Jan 1, 1990
178 pages
ISBN: 9780552993975
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First Published
1980
Language
eng
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