G.

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In this luminous novel — winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize — John Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the Don Juan's success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinariness through their moments with him. All of this Berger sets against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi and the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898, the Boer War, and the first flight across the Alps, making G. a brilliant novel about the search for intimacy in history's private moments.

Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: January 08, 1992

ISBN: 0679736549

ISBN 13: 9780679736547

G.

John Berger

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Language: English

Pages: 336

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: January 08, 1992

ISBN: 0679736549

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