# The Butcher

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- Book: [The Butcher](https://www.bookquiver.com/alina-reyes/the-butcher) ([The Butcher.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/alina-reyes/the-butcher.md))
- Authors: [Alina Reyes](https://www.bookquiver.com/alina-reyes)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-18-0784-304-5
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2027-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Fleshy, beautiful and obscene' Evening Standard As she whiles away her summer days in a dull seaside town, a young woman finds herself strangely and increasingly drawn to the looming figure of her boss, the butcher. A controversial bestseller when first published 1988, Alina Reyes novella pairs here with her stories 'Lucie's Long Voyage' and 'The Fatal Bodice' to form a vision of female sensuality that is by turns dreamlike and nightmarish. ‘Her depiction of sex has sparked a resurgence of erotica as a lost literary tradition.... The language is as rich as calves' liver.’ The Times Vintage Desire: classic stories of lust and longing.