Don Juan in the Village
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0394586913 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. 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. "The Duchess of L.A." is a spoof of the S/M scene. 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, feeling like Woody Allen, Norman Mailer, Donald Trump. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly In these 14 tales of lesbian relationships, journal
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.. 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 depths off a Caribbean island, the heroine of Don Juan in the Village is ever on the prowl. 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
A first-rate collection of sharply observed un-love stories 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.