Greetings from the Vodka Sea
Autor Chris Gudgeon, Gudgeonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2004
Greetings from the off-kilter world of Chris Gudgeon. In his first-ever book of fiction, the bestselling author of "The Naked Truth: The Untold History of Sex in Canada" offers postcard glimpses into the quirky private lives of unusually twisted characters. A prim English bride honeymooning near the so-called Vodka Sea learns the hard way why it's better not to drink the water in foreign parts.
A chess-playing doctor loses his wife to a charismatic psychologist during a sensuous group sex session masquerading as therapy. A social climbing adulterer contemplates the seduction of a middle-aged woman he once loved but who may now expose him. Personal histories rub up against present relationships. Paths cross, whether by accident or design. Polished veneers hide deeper truths.
Bitterly funny and filled with lusty, rueful, comical, calculating, and even affectionate sex, Gudgeon's eleven cosmopolitan stories explore the chasm between loving and being loved in return. Life's randomness is offset by dark comedy and by an eerily familiar synchronicity.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 086492383X
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 143 x 215 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.31 kg
Ediția:No.
Editura: Goose Lane Editions
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All you need is love. All you get is sex . . . the saying is all too true in the strange private lives revealed in "Greetings from the Vodka Sea."
A prim English bride honeymooning beside the Vodka Sea learns first-hand about drinking the water in foreign parts. A naive doctor and his wife diverge in a group sex session masquerading as therapy. A man with a past plots to seduce a deteriorated middle-aged woman who could expose him. Paths cross, whether by accident or by design. Life's randomness is offset by dark comedy, the dream-logic of fantasy, and an eerily familiar synchronicity.