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The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir

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The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir

A New York Times â‚¬Å“Notable Book of the Yearâ‚¬Â and Winner of the Charity Erotic Awards Writer of the Year

Witty, intelligent, and eloquent, The Surrender is an erotic memoir and story of a womanâ‚¬s unusual path to sexual and spiritual discovery inspired by a powerful exploration of what is perhaps the last remaining sexual taboo, one for which she becomes a compelling advocate. Toni Bentley is the author of five previous booksâ‚¬"all of them New York Times â‚¬Å“Notable Booksâ‚¬Â.

â‚¬Å“Bentley is writing of her rhapsodic experience with sodomy. So some will call this memoir blasphemous, others spiritual; some pornographic, others erotic. What it is, is wonderfully smart and sexy and witty and moving, a tale of unbounded passion that leads to transcendenceâ‚¬Â¦. While deeply serious, Bentley is also hilarious.... Bentleyâ‚¬s honesty about the most intimate of subjects is daring and delightful for those willing to follow her to, so to speak, the end.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Publishers Weekly (starred review)

â‚¬Å“Toni Bentley...has taken the radical decision to compose a manifesto for anal sex.... No woman before Bentley has felt quite zealous enough about what she calls â‚¬Ëœemancipation through the back doorâ‚¬ to write an entire book in its praise.... The Surrender is a brave bookâ‚¬"although not because it tackles a â‚¬Ëœtabooâ‚¬ or because it is frank. Its bravery lies rather in its earnest attempt to do justice to the transcendent dimension of a profane act.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Zoe Heller, The New York Times Book Review

â‚¬Å“Hot.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Newsweek

â‚¬Å“Ms. Bentleyâ‚¬s new sex confessional is extraordinary.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Alexandra Jacobs, New York Observer

â‚¬Å“Stylish and amusing...The Surrender celebrates â‚¬Ëœthe joy that lies on the other side of convention.â‚¬... Enjoyable.... Oddly charming.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Entertainment Weekly

â‚¬Å“I think it might be a small masterpiece of erotic writing. I admired its lucidity, the tone is true and unsentimental, and itâ‚¬s so naturalâ‚¬"the explicitness is so completely unaffected.â‚¬Ââ‚¬"Leon Weiseltier, New York Observer

Toni Bentley danced with George Balanchineâ‚¬s New York City Ballet for ten years. She is the author of five booksâ‚¬"all named New York Times â‚¬Å“Notable Booksâ‚¬Ââ‚¬"which include Winter Season: A Dancerâ‚¬s Journal, Holding on to the Air (the autobiography of Suzanne Farrell written with Toni Bentley), Costumes by Karinska, Sisters of Salome, and The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir. She was the recipient of a 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship and her essay, â‚¬Å“The Bad Lion,â‚¬Â (originally published in the New York Review of Books) was selected by Christopher Hitchens for Best American Essays 2010.
Country USA
Manufacturer Chu Hartley Publishers
Binding Kindle Edition
IsAdultProduct 1
ReleaseDate 2013-04-09
Format Kindle eBook

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