The Bride Stripped Bare: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Gemmell, Nikki

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 000716226X ISBN 13 : 9780007162260

Editeur : Harper, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Gemmell Nikki

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“Titillating...like an artful striptease, The Bride Stripped Bare ensnares us with its rawness.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“Artful...cannily perceptive...this unusual but strangely compelling novel offers an intimate chronicle of change and self-discovery.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Unremitting, elegant and dark. I believe every woman should get married at least once, and read this novel twice.” (Suzanne Finnamore, author of Otherwise Engaged)

“Escapist fiction as its intriguing best. ‘The Bride Stripped Bare’ is sexy with a capital X.” (Jill Davis, author of A Girl’s Poker Night)

“Simply too beautiful...a mesmerizing and disquieting novel that will deserve to be read again.” (Vogue Australia)

“Wonderfully sensuous...witty in its construction...a subtle portrait of a modern marriage.” (Independent)

“One of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time.” (Time Out New York)

“Superbly executed: suspense, psychodrama, anger, tenderness and terror mingle with the restlessness of a vast , overpowering landscape.” (London Times Literary Supplement)

“A powerful novel that does not flinch from strong emotion or description...luminous.” (London Times)

“A jazzy, nonlinear...narrative style as compelling and exotic as the landscape itself.” (Baltimore Sun)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the Good Wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. Inspired by a manuscript written by an anonymous Elizabethan woman who dared to speak of what women truly desire, she tastes for the first time the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is, How long can she sustain a perilous double life?

In writing The Bride Stripped Bare, the author decided to remain anonymous so she would feel absolutely free to explore a woman's inner world. As she writes in her afterword, "That doesn't mean this book is a memoir; it's many things to me, fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and fact, a quilt pieced together not only from my stories but those of my friends."

Coolly impassioned, The Bride Stripped Bare tells startling truths about love and sex. It will make you question whether it is ever entirely possible to know another person.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 000716226X
• ISBN 13: 9780007162260
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384