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Seven Tales of Sex and Death
Patricia Duncker
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Description for Seven Tales of Sex and Death
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Illuminating the dark side of the erotic, these interwoven stories explore obsession, violence, and the thin line between sex and death. Under a Mediterranean sun a man searches for the Temple of Zeus as his wife awaits her stalker; a sex worker at an illegal fetish club contemplates her options; a strike spirals out of control with eerie consequences; and a conflict with noisy neighbours reaches theatrical heights. Driven by lust, greed and revenge, chillingly calm or maddened by rage, Patricia Duncker's characters use every tool at their disposal to get what they want. Unapologetically ... Read more
Illuminating the dark side of the erotic, these interwoven stories explore obsession, violence, and the thin line between sex and death. Under a Mediterranean sun a man searches for the Temple of Zeus as his wife awaits her stalker; a sex worker at an illegal fetish club contemplates her options; a strike spirals out of control with eerie consequences; and a conflict with noisy neighbours reaches theatrical heights. Driven by lust, greed and revenge, chillingly calm or maddened by rage, Patricia Duncker's characters use every tool at their disposal to get what they want. Unapologetically ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408872666
SKU
V9781408872666
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99-10
About Patricia Duncker
Patricia Duncker is the author of six novels: Hallucinating Foucault (winner of the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize in 1996), The Deadly Space Between, James Miranda Barry, Miss Webster and Cherif (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2007), The Strange Case of the Composer and his Judge (shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger award for Best ... Read more
Reviews for Seven Tales of Sex and Death
Duncker is a mistress of suspense ... A febrile, fascinating, disquieting read. It asserts itself for what it is: serious stuff, to be read in one gulp and then mulled over for days
Maggie O'Farrell A wonderfully engaging and rewarding collection, shot through with wit and perversity
Michael Arditti
Independent
Dark, subversive ... You will be ... Read more
Maggie O'Farrell A wonderfully engaging and rewarding collection, shot through with wit and perversity
Michael Arditti
Independent
Dark, subversive ... You will be ... Read more