John Berger relates the story of ‘G’., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the twentieth century.

With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the Don Juan’s success: his essential loneliness, the quiet culmination in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinariness through their moments with him.

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The Booker Prize 1972
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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John Berger

John Berger

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John Berger was born in London and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford. In 1962, he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps.
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