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_nN.K Kannan Menon Foundation
041 _aEnglish
082 _aF
_bEVE/IW
100 _aEveline Mahyere
245 _aI WILL NOT SERVE
250 _a1
260 _aLondon
_bVirgo Modern Classics
_c1958
300 _g164
500 _aSylvie 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...
650 _aFrench Fiction
650 _aNovel
700 _aAntonia White (tr.)
942 _cREF
942 _2ddc
999 _c195169
_d195169