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| | Powell's Books - Sabine by A P |
 | | Author 'A.P.' assumes the voice of one of the five youths, Viola, who writes in hindsight: a motherless only child, Viola is sent by her fashionable father to the lax, elderly 'Tante Aime,' who runs the derelict chateau academy. |
 | | Sabine lambastes Viola, who becomes her favorite, for living in a 'soap bubble' of privilege, and exhorts her to embrace longing, fury, humiliation, suffering — in short, to live. |
 | | Viola obliges by falling passionately in love with her instructor — and is shattered when her lovely, ferocious beloved accepts the advances of the most eligible young bachelor of the school's chateau set. |
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