The Sexual Life Of Catherine M.

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By (author) Millet Catherine

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The sensational erotic memoir that shocked the world, now a Serpent”s Tail Classic.

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A window into a life of insatiable desire and uninhibited sex – this is Parisian art critic Catherine M.”s account of her sexual awakening and her unrestrained pursuit of pleasure.From the glamorous singles clubs of Paris to the Bois de Boulogne, she describes her erotic experiences in precise and beautiful detail. A phenomenal bestseller throughout Europe, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., like Fifty Shades of Grey, breaks with accepted ideas of sex and examines many alternative manifestations of desire. Told in spare, elegant prose, her story will shock, enlighten and liberate you.

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Elegantly written and extraordinarily frank. Here is a book so rich in sexual revelation that it could feed five tabloids for a year and still have something left for Channel 5

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Millet is the new icon of highbrow pornography

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The author writes like a connoisseur who is perfectly at ease with her subject… A brilliant testimony of a life spent at the sexual front line

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This is the most explicit book about sex ever written by a woman, though it is far from pornographic.Catherine Millet sets about coolly and rationally exploring her insatiable appetites – and she has lived to tell the tale that is the opposite of lurid.It is a comprehensive and elegant performance

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I don”t approve of The Sexual Life of Catherine M.But I am grateful she has written it

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She proves again that Catholicism and filthy sex go together like salt beef and rye

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Readers may find this book disturbing or repellent, but they are unlikely to find it dull. I thought that it was the most honest book I had ever read on the subject of sex

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Her fans are now citing her as a feminist sexual crusader

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Millet”s achievement is that she curates or, more accurately, catalogues her sexual adventures with no sense of shame or remorse

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Is this the most original novel of the year?

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You are amazed at her honesty as you are by her exploits. Some of what she does and says mirror your own thoughts and fantasies

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It is Millet”s subversive achievement to describe pleasure for its own sake

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This bestseller shocked Europe and looks set to become controversial here

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Her s are laced with a laconic frankness which veers between intelligent reflection and willed self-objectification

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Millet diverts the tradition of erotic writing by French women such as Pauline Reage and Alina Reyes firmly into the realm of non-fiction, with this account of her sexual encounters, tastes and unconventional morality… Millet writes extremely well, describing her recollections vividly, and investing her physical largesse with a queenly magnanimity… Millet”s sexual aesthetic is a literary one, invoking Sade, Reage and Proust… a work of libertine philosophy”

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Millet”s implicit mission is to write about her own desire with absolute candour and a fierce refusal to consider her audience”s needs or sensibilities

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Explicit and honest

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Pornography must have been a challenge, but Catherine M has risen to it in a way that will have Descartes encoring from Beyond… Catherine M writes with the enthusiasm of one who invented multiple-partner sex even though she no longer practises the intercourse that she writes about… Genuine free-love requires a level of trust and honesty few of us are prep