Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
by Paulo Coelho
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Author: Paulo CoelhoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-03-29
ISBN: 0060589280
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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- ISBN13: 9780060589288
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Book Review: "Pretty Woman" goes to Geneva
Summary: 3 Stars
Having read Coelho's "The Alchemist" and now "Eleven Minutes," I have two words to describe his work: trite and beautiful. "Eleven Minutes" (which refers to the average duration of the sexual act) reads like the Julia Roberts movie spin-off, now transferred to exotic locations (Brazil and Geneva). This script's star is Maria, a naive Brazilian secretary, who seeks adventure, money and a husband but ends up a prostitute in a Geneva men's club. For the most part, Maria's forays into paid sex sound more like dating in any large city. Of course she just "falls" into the scene when she signs up to be a model and earns a pretty sum sleeping with a potential employer. Figuring out this is an easy way to make money, Maria ditches her regular job and becomes a lady of the night. We only hear of her adventures with two young, rich, good looking clients, one of whom opens up her world in a sexual way, and the other (also rich, echoes of the Pretty Woman movie here) she falls in love with. Hate to be a spoiler, but this isn't the whole story. It's really about Coelho and his sympathetic view of prostitutes as just regular women (aren't most of us after adventure, money and love) or, more cynically perhaps, we are all just whores. As a novel, it is better written than many on the shelf; fast paced and easy to read, it doesn't eat up all your time. Unlike Pretty Woman, Maria never gets roughed up, nor is she prey to the drugs, abuse and exploitation of most of her skin trade sisters. Although a titillating post-modern fairy tale about the oldest profession, Coelho's fantasies might better have been kept to himself.
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