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Nikki Gemmell
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With My Body: A Novel (P.S.) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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462 |
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2012-06-19 |
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0062122630 |
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Harper Perennial |
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0.85 pounds |
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1.08 x 5.31 x 8.0 inches |
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From the author of the international bestseller The Bride Stripped Bare comes the raw and resonant story of a middle-aged wife and mother who attempts to reclaim her lost sense of self by exploring the memory of an old love affair, the consequences of which have remained unresolved for years. Nikki Gemmell is “one of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time” (Time Out New York), and With My Body is a unique and captivating novel. Poetic and boldly, unabashedly sensual, Gemmell’s gorgeous writing and explosive content evoke the seductive power of The Secret Life Of Catherine M, Damage, and The Story of O, but this instant classic bears a modern insight into present-day sexuality and that could only come from the intimate and invigorating voice of Nikki Gemmell.
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Marianne (Australia) (2014/11/26):
With My Body is the second book in the Bride Trilogy by Australian author, Nikki Gemmell. In modern-day England, an unnamed woman, a wife and mother of three young boys, is unhappy with her life. She is almost forty, exhausted from the demands of husband and sons, the PTA president and the school obligations, and bored with the routine of life. She hasn’t had sex in two years. Her despair causes her to thinks back to her adolescence in Australia, and the man who taught her to make love. It was an affair that was passionate, liberating and transforming.
The story is told in the second person, which does take a little getting used to. It is split into ten sections, which are divided into 225 (mostly very short) chapters, headed as “Lessons” and each prefaced with a quote from a Victorian volume entitled “A Woman’s Thoughts About Women” (which actually does exist). The first section and the last two are set in the present day; the middle sections deal with the woman’s life from the impressionable age of eleven, through her sexual awakening and into her early adulthood. Readers should be prepared for certain concepts that are touched on in this novel: teen sex, bondage, and group sex, as well as some fairly explicit descriptions of sex; this is erotica, after all. However, the narrative (which is perhaps just a little slow in the middle) also explores the woman’s relationship with her father, her step-mother, a predatory artist and the writer who eventually becomes her lover, the man whose lessons she is recording. The plot does not necessarily go quite where the reader might expect, and this book is certainly better that the first book in the trilogy.
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