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Hottentot Venus : A Novel (Vintage)
Hottentot Venus A Novel - Vintage
Author: Barbara Chase-Riboud
It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and pornographic obscenities. Among these spectators is Napoleon’s physician and the most famou...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781400032082
ISBN-10: 1400032083
Publication Date: 11/9/2004
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Anchor
Book Type: Paperback
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