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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Set in Boston in the sixties, Daniel Francoeur is featured in this exploration of Catholicism and sexual obsession and of the conflicting demands and constraints they impose.

David Plante is very wise to spin a tale where one night of sexual joy can lead anyone into the wild world of speculation . When I read Hollingshurst's The Folking Star, I was reminded of Plante's The Catholic.

David Plante is very wise to spin a tale where one night of sexual joy can lead anyone into the wild world of speculation about the barely known lover and the pain of longing and obsession for someone we really do not know. Plante explores the components of sexual obsession which may include project onto the lover a range of concepts that are beyond reality. Both deal with sexual obsession and the way the mind eventually forgets the love object, which leads to the healing.

David Robert Plante (born March 4, 1940 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American novelist, diarist, and memoirist. The son of Albina Bisson and Aniclet Plante, he is of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent

David Robert Plante (born March 4, 1940 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American novelist, diarist, and memoirist. The son of Albina Bisson and Aniclet Plante, he is of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent. He is a graduate of Boston College and the Université catholique de Louvain. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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I heard David Plante on Michael Silverblatt's show, and that made me seek this out. The interview was probably better than the book

I heard David Plante on Michael Silverblatt's show, and that made me seek this out. The interview was probably better than the book. I'd hate to be stuck next to this narrator at a dinner party.

Difficult Women, the book with which David Plante made his name, presents three .

Difficult Women, the book with which David Plante made his name, presents three portraits-each one of them as detailed, textured, and imposing as the those of Lucian Freud-of three extraordinary, complicated, and, yes, difficult women, while also raising intriguing and in their own way difficult questions about the character and motivations of the keenly and often cruelly observant portraitist himself. The first volume of National Book Award finalist David Plante's extraordinary diaries of a life lived among the artistic elite in 1960s London

Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1986, c1985.

New American Library. Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1986, c1985.

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The son of Albina Bisson and Aniclet Plante, he is of both French-Canadian and North American Indian descent.

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