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Sexuality In Alice Bonnard's Jealousiness

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Reluctantly, a sulky adolescent returns to her parents’ house for yet another boring summer vacation, dabbling in desire and the art of desirability, eventually mixing reality with vision, caged fantasies with the fierce female sexuality. Reluctantly, only child Alice Bonnard, a sulky and curious adolescent, returns to her parents’ provincial farm house for yet another boring and endless end-of term vacation from boarding school, in the summer of 1963. Sadly, what awaits her there is a farce of a happy family, a strenuous generation gap, lonely outings with her bicycle and an awkward and clumsy transcendental stage between a girl’s puberty and a young woman’s adolescence. Nevertheless, as if by instinct, Alice the unripe explorer of her budding
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