Author: Joseph Kessel
Publisher: Dell 0530
Year: 1964 Print: 1 Cover Price: $.50
Condition: Near Fine. Light wear
Pages: 158
Genre: Fiction/Sleaze
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Severine Serizy is a wealthy and beautiful Parisian housewife. She loves her husband, but she cannot share physical intimacy with him, and her vivid sadomasochistic fantasies drive her to seek employment at a brothel. By day, she enacts her customers' wildest fantasies under the pseudonym “Belle de Jour”; in the evenings, she returns home to her chaste marriage and oblivious husband. Famous for its unflinching eroticism, Joseph Kessel’s novel continues to offer an eye-opening glance into a unique female psyche.