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Synopsis

From the Jacket: It is hard to conceive of any subject that would be taboo in the contemporary novel, but Romain Gary's latest theme, the onset of male impotence with age, attacks the myth of unassailable virility that may well be held sacred by our society Gary's hero, Jacques Rainier, is a prisoner of his own maturity, of a lifetime of hard-mindedness and of his own highly evolved personal style. In what should be the prime of life, he finds himself facing the humiliation of vanishing manhood.