Belle de Jour
$ 5.00
Author: Joseph Kessel
Publisher: Dell 0530
Year: 1964 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.50
Condition: Book Grades. Very Good Minus. Light wear.
Genre: Fiction/Erotica
Pages: 158
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The story follows Séverine Sérizy, a beautiful, wealthy Parisian housewife who is deeply in love with her husband, Pierre. However, due to childhood trauma and repressed psychological conflicts, she is entirely unable to share physical intimacy with him. Plagued by vivid sadomasochistic desires, Séverine secretly takes a part-time job at a high-class Parisian brothel while Pierre is at work. Working only from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM, she takes the pseudonym "Belle de Jour" (Beauty of the Day). She successfully balances her double life until she becomes dangerously entangled with a jealous young gangster named Marcel, leading to a tragic collision between her secret fantasy world and her respectable reality.
