Quiver: A Book of Erotic Tales
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This titillating collection of twelve short stories depicts the pleasures of new and rediscovered love, lust, and obsession. In the flashes that blur the line between fantasy and reality, each story captures the wild erotic experiences of a small group of professional, middle-class acquaintances, revealing sexual interludes of kaleidoscopic range--heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, exhibitionist, and sadomasochistic, from a woman s point of view, a man s, the participants , and a voyeur s. In each account, recurring characters encounter new venues to express the fearlessness of youth, the excitement for the new, and the nostaglia for the variety of love lost. Sensual, explicit, and daring, Quiver introduces a fresh voice in the genre of erotica. Quiver is a bestseller in Australia. Compare Quiver to Eat Me by Linda Jaivin, another erotic bestseller from Australia.Publishers WeeklyA woman bent on revenge, a man craving extremes and the self-doubts of middle age are all part of this diverse collection, already a bestseller in Australia. Although Learner, a screenwriter (HBO's The Unmasking of O), writes most often from the point of view of a straight woman, she occasionally adopts male and bisexual points of view, and she's best when she features a voyeuristic element. In the opening story, "The Woman Who Was Tied Up and Forgotten," a married couple rekindle their passion with the joys of bondage, but even that innovation soon needs added spice. The clich that people in power really want domination is turned on its head in a surprising climax. Another tale, "Looking for Strange," describes the allure of a single character from the perspectives of two lovers, which converge in the heated encounter of an adventurous threesome. Perhaps the most imaginative story, "The Short Man in Crime," features a six-foot-five-inch woman who learns the beauty of her form from a five-foot-one-inch man. Some portraits are stronger than others, but each erotic narrative pushes the reader toward the next with great expectation, and the final story, "The Promiscuity of Bats," joins all of the characters in a stalled elevator on Christmas Eve. One man puts a drug, ecstasy, in the champagne he's carrying and the ensuing orgy brings everyone back out for a curtain call. It's no mystery why this explicit debut has found an enthusiastic audience Down Under. (July)
The Woman Who Was Tied Up and Forgotten1Man of Sighs15The Man Who Loved Sound35Pomegranate60Ice Cream83Tulip91The Listening Room118Looking for Strange134The Short Man in Crime148Doubt174Peel193The Promiscuity of Bats199
