Lovers (edition 2012)

by Daniel Arsand, Howard Curtis (Translator)

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Member:	bostonbibliophile
Title:	Lovers
Authors:	Daniel Arsand
Other authors:	Howard Curtis (Translator)
Info:	Europa Editions (2012), Paperback, 144 pages
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Hypnotic, erotic story about the love affair between a French aristocrat and a young farmer he plucks from obscurity. Balthazar and Sebastien meet the day Balthazar is thrown from a horse and Sebastien saves his life with medicinal herbs. The two are besotted with each other and Sebastien soon moves into Balthazar's chateau to learn healing arts; but Sebastien decides he wants to be a painter instead, and Balthazar, who scorns his position and refuses to go to Versailles to attend to the king, finds himself dogged by ugly rumors and is brought to trial and condemned to death. Lovers is like a prose poem about passion and a love that defines the lives of two men. It's a quick read but one that will leave you entranced and enchanted. See my full review here: http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2012/06/review-lovers-by-daniel-arsand.html (

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Sébastien is fifteen years old and already versed in the medicinal arts when he meets the young nobleman Balthazar de Créon, whose life he saves after the latter is thrown from a horse. De Créon, struck by the boy’s beauty as much by his talents as a healer, orders Sébastien to his manor some months later so he can instruct him in the ways of the court, hoping thus to install him as Louis XV’s surgeon. His motives, however, are clouded by his lust for Sébastien, and after a brief period of restraint Balthazar and Sébastien loose both their passion and their imaginations. But it is 1749 and their affair scandalizes the French court, bringing the king’s wrath down upon them. Balthazar is eventually presented with an ultimatum: repudiate Sébastien and live, or do not, and die.

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"Sebastien is fifteen years old and already versed in the medicinal arts when he meets the young nobleman Balthazar de Creon, whose life he saves after the latter is thrown from a horse. De Creon, struck by the boy's beauty as much by his talents as a healer, orders Sebastien to his manor some months later so he can instruct him in the ways of the court, hoping thus to install him as Louis XV's surgeon. His motives, however, are clouded by his lust for Sebastien, and after a brief period of restraint Balthazar and Sebastien loose both their passion and their imaginations. But it is 1749 and their affair scandalizes the French court, bringing the king's wrath down upon them. Balthazar is eventually presented with an ultimatum: repudiate Sebastien and live, or do not, and die."--Amazon.com.… (more)

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