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PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781841954707

RRP: £10.99

PAGES: 448

PUBLICATION DATE:
July 30, 2004

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Farewell My Only One

Antoine Audouard

One of the great romances of all times, Antoine Audouard has based his narrative on Abelard’s and Heloise’s celebrated correspondence and contemporary texts, immersing the reader in the lives of a hero and heroine whose love will never die.

Reviews of Farewell My Only One

"Audouard. . .evokes in gritty and poetic detail the streets of 12th-century Paris." –Cristina Nehring The New York Times Book Review

Antoine Audouard

The son of a well-known French writer and journalist, ANTOINE AUDOUARD was born in 1956 and had very early success with three novels in rapid succession before gave up writing for commercial publishing. Adieu, Mon Unique (Farewell, My Only One) is his first novel in nineteen years.

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