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Sleeping beauties available for download and read online in other formats. The house of the sleeping beauties focuses on yoshio eguchi, aged sixtyseven, who visits an inn at a japanese hotspring resort in order to sleep beside one or another beautiful young woman. Its such a big book that youd be forgiven for thinking theres a. In the three long tales in this collection, yasunari kawabata examines the. Sep 28, 2017 as it stands, sleeping beauties is a tedious read, full of gratuitous shooting and shouting but empty in every other sense. My next book, sleeping beauties, a novel coauthored with stephen king, will be published by scribner in 2017.
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