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I WILL NOT SERVE

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: London Virgo Modern Classics 1958Edition: 1Description: 164ISBN:
  • 0860683060
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • F EVE/IW
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Reference Reference Ernakulam Public Library Reference Reference F EVE/IW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan E1101351

Sylvie is a rebellious and impetuous schoolgirl of seventeen. Three months before she is due to take her Baccalaureate the convent of Sainte-Thérèse expels her -- because she has fallen passionately in love with her teacher, the nun Julienne. So Sylvie retreats to the demi-monde of Paris in the 1950s: a world of bars, jazz and bohemianism. But she refuses to forget Julienne, bombarding her with letters, forcing her to confront a love which has for Sylvie the revelatory force of a religious experience. Sometimes she is in ecstasy, often in the depths of despair, always she is fervent, obsessed - until, driven by Julienne's ambivalence and the unyelding bourgeois world, she commits the rashest act of all...

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