Herculine Barbin (Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth Century French Hermaphrodite)With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Herculine was designated female at birth. A pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another schoolmistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits

”—Liesl Schillinger

recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

Is it possible to talk of an infancy of experience

Sheila Heti

small-town Australia

intensely personal exploration into matters of morality

atmospheric

He brought out his first book of poems in 1919

and in large quantities

Mayer was a marvelous poet in every stage of her long and prolific writing life

Volumes in Very Good condition

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