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Five novels explore Bordeaux and its surroundings, offering Mauriac's searching attention to desire, belief and the pressures of provincial society.

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Social ambition exacts a moral price in Mauriac's novel, as the pursuit of precedence reveals the harm of treating people as instruments.

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