num_pages: 365
description: Swinging between his wife and his mistress in the sacred and profane love machine and between the charms of morality and the excitements of sin, the psychotherapist, Blaise Gavender, sometimes wishes he could divide himself in two. Instead, he lets loose misery and confusion and—for the spectators at any rate—a morality play, rich in reflections upon the paradoxes of human life and the nature of the battle between sacred and profane love.
language: English
title: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
titlecomplete: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine
genres: 20th Century, Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Novels, Womens, Literature, Classics, British Literature, Romance, Fiction
ratings_count: 1434
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Penguin Books