Darling Clementine
  • Published:
    Mar-2006
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    159
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Darling Clementine is the story of Samantha, a poetess determined to transform her sex life into a meditation: a pathway to enlightenment. Along for the ride is her brand new husband, Arthur Clementine, a wealthy, calm, but crypto-zany assistant district attorney for New York County. The novel begins with their meeting and works its way backward and forward. In the past, a series of darkening love affairs lead Sam to a suicide attempt and a breakdown. Now, Samantha works on a suicide hotline and uses her marriage in a search for radical sanity, a sort of road show of Love's Body. Along the way, she reconciles polymorphous perversity with housework; tries to talk one of William Blake's deities out of killing himself -- or someone else; and watches, with everyone else, as the world moves toward the ever popular brink of destruction. Darling Clementine is an effervescent combination of Henry Miller and P. G. Woodhouse, in a character as daffy and enchanting as Truman Capote's Holly Golightly was in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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    • Mar-2006
    • Permanent Press, The
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1579621384
    • ISBN13: 9781579621384
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    • Mar-1988
    • Permanent Press (NY)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0932966810
    • ISBN13: 9780932966810
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    • Oct-2015
    • The Permanent Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Nov-2015
    • The Permanent Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1504023528
    • ISBN13: 9781504023528



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