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Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780684869155 ISBN: 0684869152 Label: Touchstone Manufacturer: Touchstone Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: February 05, 2002 Publisher: Touchstone Studio: Touchstone Editorial Review: Product Description: Enlightenment and arousal await you inside with the best erotic writing of the year. In The Best American Erotica 2002, Jane Smiley illustrates the singular escapism found in the gentlest caress, Maggie Estep relates the surprising sexual happenings in a detox clinic, Francesca Lia Block explores the aquatic fantasies haunting a surfer, and Ernie Conrick introduces a tennis star and sex symbol who surrenders to an unusual coach. In these twenty-five stories you will also find cutting-edge work from other luminaries and from the Internet, where the next wave of erotica has matured into some of the most enticing writing around. Susie Bright's experienced eye and wide-open mind deliver exceptional writing that will satisfy all tastes and preferences -- and the merely curious. CONTRIBUTORS Amazon.com Review: Is this sex in America? Let's hope so. The Best American Erotica 1999 is a melting pot of inventive selections that run the gamut from bittersweet stories of youthful passion to Henry Miller-esque vignettes of cosmopolitan lust. There are detours along the way to raunchy merriment, steamy liaisons, erotic sorrow, and many other landmarks in the erotic landscape, both fresh and familiar. Explore the bittersweet of yesterday and today, growing up with Elise D'Haene in an excerpt from 'Licking Our Wounds.' If Kirk-Spock fantasies are getting to be old hat, take a titillating peek into an amorous Boy Wonder's diary in Kelly McQuain's 'Je T'aime, Batman, Je T'adore.' The erotic imagination of America wouldn't be complete without a rock star fantasy: Ben Neihart's 'The Number One Song in the Country' delivers, in spades. Cecelia Tan suggests an answer to the age-old question of what women do in bed together--and provides some ingenious toy ideas for those who already know--in her thrilling 'Penetrations.' And celebrating our ever-increasing Internet usage, Robin Sweeney's 'Picking Up Daddy' provides an exhilarating narrative about nervously meeting and amorously greeting a lover met online. The fabric of America's erotic life--twosomes, threesomes, same sex, opposite sex, gender benders, realistic sex, outrageous fantasies, revenge fantasies, dainty love stories, no-holds-barred one-night stands, and more--is well chronicled in this anthology from sexpert Susie Bright. --Cheryl Trooskin Related Items:      see moreAverage Rating:
 Rating:  - HORRID!!!!This book lacks everything erotica should be. The stories are poorly written, with no viable character development and confusing story lines. No man or woman should be subjected to the horror these people have published. There is one story about a woman who is a phone sex operator and talks with a mentally challenged man. It's rather short and has no flowing plot, and at the end, the man asks the phone sex operator if he should kill himself. Now, I know there are people out there who are into s and m, but come on! How in the world did this story make it into print???? Do NOT waste your money on this book. It's downright terrible and has left me with nightmares and a bad taste in my mouth. Rating: - A [bad one] in the seriesRather dull and disappointing. No real literary stories and no real erotic stories, just a mish-mash of what must pass as "new". Rating:  - Erotica for Literature BuffsHere is Erotica for grown-ups, for people who think sex, besides being something to get hot for, is also something worth thinking about. In the vein of writers like Philip Roth, Henry Miller and Mary Gaitskill, this collection gives erotica its intellectual due. Sex is serious--as well as funny, hot and sad. Erotica is given the depth and complexity it deserves. Bravo Susie Bright! You are a genius! Rating: - Make my porn literature!Once again Susie Bright comes through with thought provoking and literate substance that gets you off in more ways than any other erotic writing collection on earth! They don't call it "Best" for nothing. Though not all "storke and poke", this edition has balls a-plenty and is willing to take us to places we might sometimes find difficult to go. I found this batch of stories apropos of our times in a way that was strangely healing at an emotional level. Bravo! Rating: - This is erotica???Sorry to have to add my voice to the chorus of disdain, but its true. Previous editions of this series have been good so I'm not sure what went wrong here. But the stories included here are not sexy, intelligent or well-written. |
