The Devil in the Flesh
Book Details
Author(s)Raymond Radiguet
PublisherMarion Boyars Publishers Ltd
ISBN / ASIN0714534021
ISBN-139780714534022
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank1,492,293
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The Devil in the Flesh, one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of 16, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. With an accuracy of insight that is almost ruthless, he describes his conflicting emotions the pride of an adolescent on the verge of manhood and the pain of a child thrust too fast into maturity.
The liaison soon becomes a scandal, and their friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is happening even when the affair reaches its tragic climax.






