Love is Colder than the Lake A Different Practice cocktail hours

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at once playful and sincere

Elaine Cameron-Weir

While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry

often sampled from outside sources

Love is Colder than the Lake A Different Practice cocktail hoursLiliane Giraudon Love Is Colder than the Lake weaves together stories dreamed and experienced, fragments of autobiographical trauma, and scraps of political and sexual violence to create an alchemical and incantatory texture that is all Giraudons own. In its feminist attention and allusive stylistic registers, Love Is Colder than The Lake claims a unique position among contemporary French literature. The heroes (or anti heroes) in this collection