The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction - Paperback
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The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction - Paperback
$24.00
by J. H. Blair (Editor)
They imbued their art with the truth about love and sex and seduction. They pushed erotic writing to the center stage of American fiction. They took risks, fed our imaginations, and explored our fantasies. Drawn from the works of dozens of the best contemporary American writers, The Good Parts is American writing at its most unabashedly erotic.Contributors include: * Saul Bellow * Harold Brodkey * Philip Roth * Don DeLillo * Scott Spencer * William Styron * Joan Mellen * Kathy Acker * Rebecca Goldstein * Joyce Carol Oates * Lynne Sharon Schwartz * Elizabeth Tallent * Pat Califia * Toni Morrison * Michael Chabon * Robert Boswell * E.L. Doctorow * Mary Gordon * Oscar Hijuelos * Susanna Moore * Pam Durban * Dani Shapiro * Frederick Busch * Mary Caponegro * A.M. Homes * Charles Johnson * Jane Smiley * Robert Olen Butler * Siri Hustvedt * Susan Sontag * Amy Bloom * Steve Erickson * Amanda Filipacchi * Anna Monardo * Maria Flook * Dale Peck * Joan Wickersham * Lynne McFall * Gwendolyn M. Parker * Charles D'Ambrosio * Jennifer Egan * Anchee Min * Rick Moody * Charlotte Watson Sherman * Paula Huston * James McManus * Mary Gaitskill
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They imbued their art with the truth about love and sex and seduction. They pushed erotic writing to the center stage of serious American fiction. With delicacy and daring, lyricism and lucidity they explored their fantasies, took risks, and fed our imaginations. And what they wrote, we read reread. They're the writers who delivered.
Drawn from the works of fifty of the best contemporary American writers, The Good Parts comprises an erotic anthology that is both richly diverse and audaciously original, warmly sensual and playfully perverse: KATHY ACKER subverting traditional narrative with anarchic post-punk feminism; SAUL BELLOW reflecting the changing attitudes about love and sex in post-war America -- and radically changing the direction of the American novel; AMY BLOOM playing with gender and fantasy in a sensual exchange between two giving lovers; FREDERICK BUSCH exploring the erotic disquiet at the heart of a modern marriage; DON DELILLO capturing the manic end of a manic century within the stark and beautiful intensity of an unfettered act of sex.
These are the good parts. This is American writing at its most unabashedly erotic.
Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.69 x 8.3 x 5.26 IN
Publication Date: February 01, 2000
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