Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl Alexis, paperback/marguerite yourcenar

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It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist.

The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century.

Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love.

The rich, many colored subtlety of her great novels -- Memoirs of Dadrian; The Abyss; Alexis; Coup de Grace; and others -- is reminiscent of their intricate tapestries, while her sublime mystical appreciation of Nature and its beauty evokes the golden age of landscape painting in the Low Countries.

- The Paris Review.