Don Juan in the Village
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394586913 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Hip, sardonic, yet painfully self-conscious and often deluded, she is convinced that no matter where she goes or whom she is with, she is doomed to perpetual solitude and estrangement.. In search of the longed-for, idealized lover, she finds instead a series of wrenching, sometimes hilarious encounters with an array of women, among them a movie star, a moroccan prostitute, and a high school dropout who works as a grocery store clerk. From the lesbian bars of New York City to the back streets of Fez, from the S&M scene in Los Angeles to the calm ocean depth
"Night Diving" contrasts the mystique and dangers of scuba diving with an unsatisfactory seduction on a Caribbean holiday. The stories make the rounds of bars in Morocco, Ibiza, Puerto Rico or Greenwich Village, affording a kind of cultural/erotic tour of women in different societies. Sexual descriptions are explicit, the literary quality is high. From Publishers Weekly In these 14 tales of lesbian relationships, journalist and novelist ( Real Estate ) DeLynn brings a distinctive, eloquent and discerning voice--by turns diffident, bold, self-mocking, biting--to the universal quandaries of love. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Bars themselves acquire significance as places of self-knowledge and a necessary sadness, where one might learn "magic words." Funny and wry, "Fame" tells how the narrator, a writer, lures a famed film actress back to her pad and seduces her, meanwhile worrying about how the bathroom looks and, in her nervous exhilaration
A first-rate collection of sharply observed un-love stories A Customer These interconnected stories follow the (lesbian) narrator's search forlove in New York and overseas; De Lynn's minimalist style is a marvel,and she is a thematic cousin to Mary Gaitskill and Denis Johnson.