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My Hundred Lovers by Susan Johnson

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June 2012, no. 342

My Hundred Lovers by Susan Johnson

Allen & Unwin, $27.99 pb, 278 pp, 9781741756357

My Hundred Lovers by Susan Johnson

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June 2012, no. 342

Why is the measure of love loss? As I worked my way through the hundred vignettes that comprise My Hundred Lovers, my thoughts kept returning to this first line of a novel by Jeanette Winterson that is similarly preoccupied with the interlinking of the body, love, sex, and death. My Hundred Lovers is the story of a life rendered as a litany of bodily memories. The twin-faced abstractions of desire and loss have lured and impelled the narrator through her worldly existence; this is a journey of self-formation made through metaphors of desire and dissolution.

Wendy Were reviews 'My Hundred Lovers' by Susan Johnson

My Hundred Lovers

by Susan Johnson

Allen & Unwin, $27.99 pb, 278 pp, 9781741756357

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