Cathleen Schine

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Rameau's Niece

Cathleen Schine

This witty companion to Rameau’s Nephew, Diderot’s light-footed masterpiece, traces the vagaries of a young woman’s life as it begins to duplicate the surprising gyrations of an eighteenth-century lascivious novel she has uncovered. Along the path of temptation, love, lust, folly, and reconciliation through the sophisticated labyrinth of contemporary Manhattan, we join this delightful young Candida on her cockeyed quest for truth.

Margaret Nathan is the scholarly though mortifyingly forgetful author of The Anatomy of Madame de Montigny, an…

 
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