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Never the Face: A Story of Desire, Sands, Ariel
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- ISBN
- 0312563868
- EAN
- 9780312563868
- Date of Publication
- 20110412
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- Never the Face: A Story of Desire
- Artist
- Sands, Ariel
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- Book Title
- Never the Face : a Story of Desire
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Erotica / General, Literary
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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In an age where every sexual frontier seems to have been breached, it's hard to believe there could still be unexplored corners, dark desires that few people dare make real. In the tradition of Josephine Hart's masterpiece, Damage , Never the Face uses riveting storytelling to tackle a complex and provocative relationship - where the most exquisite passions are also the most dangerous... The heroine of Never the Face is searching. Dissatisfied with love, bored with sex; in her experience, all lovers are predictably dull - and she longs for more, for an intensity she knows exists and has yet to discover. Just after her thirty-third birthday, she runs into David, an old flame who's now married. David invites her to dinner. Then he says, "I spent the weekend choosing a stick to beat you with." With these words, unable to resist the allure of sexual submission, she falls into an abyss of violent intimacy and excruciating pleasure. But as their brutal bond begins to unravel, carrying them together into an unfathomable territory of increasing violence and sexual extremes, she begins to discover the full, destructive power of obsessive love - and gradually spins out of control. Written in spare, savage prose, Never the Face shocks us into realizing there are people we know, friends perhaps, who are on dark, erotic journeys they dare not confess to. And they might just live next door.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312563868
ISBN-13
9780312563868
eBay Product ID (ePID)
93013817
Product Key Features
Book Title
Never the Face : a Story of Desire
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Erotica / General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Lascivious, intense, and keenly probing the human impulse toward submissive desire, this first novel is as intelligent as it is arousing." Booklist " Never the Face is a story in the tradition of 9 1/2 WEEKS about the twisted corkscrews of desire, the hearkening after the call of brute submission and dominance that is the dark side of romantic attachment. Rarely has this skewed version of love been portrayed with the clarity and daring that Ariel Sands brings to it; her rendition makes for compulsive and disturbing reading." Daphne Merkin, author of Dreaming of Hitler and Enchanted , "Lascivious, intense, and keenly probing the human impulse toward submissive desire, this first novel is as intelligent as it is arousing." Booklist " Never the Face is a story in the tradition of 9 1/2 WEEKS about the twisted corkscrews of desire, the hearkening after the call of brute submission and dominance that is the dark side of romantic attachment. Rarely has this skewed version of love been portrayed with the clarity and daring that Ariel Sands brings to it; her rendition makes for compulsive and disturbing reading." Daphne Merkin, author of Dreaming of Hitler and Enchanted "In spare, literate prose, Sands (a pseudonym for a best-selling author) has written a novel that is both shocking and compelling in its psychological violence and graphic sexuality. Its similarity to Pauline Réage's Story of O is unmistakable, and it is likely to appeal to fans of that erotic classic as well as similar works like Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" trilogy and the "Marketplace" novels by Laura Antoniou." Library Journal "A book like a dream: shy, intense, full of desire. An erotic journey into a space where all arousal comes through the whip, the belt, the cane, where all tenderness comes through savage submission. Subtle and brutally true, this book is a confession of love." Niklaus Largier, "A book like a dream: shy, intense, full of desire. An erotic journey into a space where all arousal comes through the whip, the belt, the cane, where all tenderness comes through savage submission. Subtle and brutally true, this book is a confession of love." Niklaus Largier, professor at University of California, Berkeley and author of In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal, " Never the Face is a story in the tradition of 9 1/2 WEEKS about the twisted corkscrews of desire, the hearkening after the call of brute submission and dominance that is the dark side of romantic attachment. Rarely has this skewed version of love been portrayed with the clarity and daring that Ariel Sands brings to it; her rendition makes for compulsive and disturbing reading." Daphne Merkin, author of Dreaming of Hitler and Enchanted
Lccn
2010-042303
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Lc Classification Number
Ps3619.A563n48 2011
Copyright Date
2011
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