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Title

The arch of desire : an erotic novel / Vicente Muñoz Puelles ; translated from the Spanish by Kristina Cordero.

Author

Muñoz Puelles, Vicente.

Publication

New York : Grove Press, ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cordero, Kristina, 1971-

Description

vi, 192 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"As the novel opens Pierre is a boy, raised by a wealthy family of Belgian winemakers. Precociously curious about the opposite sex - particularly the intimate garments he finds drying in the laundry room - he is initiated into the erotic by a family servant, and soon moves on to the more forbidden charms of his lovely, sophisticated half-sister. As he comes of age - attending art school, becoming an acclaimed painter, and settling in Bordeaux - Pierre simultaneously pursues ever more complex pleasures, devouring his father's collection of de Sade, Restif de la Bretonne, and other erotic classics; sampling the varieties of women - from a Senegalese prostitute, to a lesbian who works as a dominatrix to rich men, to a beautiful German who becomes his last, most perfect lover; and exploring the limits of his fetishes for dressing up and the adoration of beautiful, feminine feet."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Curvatura del empeine. English

Alternative Title

Curvatura del empeine.

Subject

• Molinier, Pierre, 1900-1976 > Fiction
• Molinier, Pierre, 1900-1976

Genre/Form

• Erotic stories.
• Erotic fiction
• Fiction
• Fiction.
• Romans.

Contents

The Woman Who Rode Away on Horseback -- The Champagne-Colored Corset -- The Carved Ivory Tusk -- The Scar -- The Snail's Trace -- The Great War -- The Death of Sardanapalus -- The Camel's Mare -- The Oleander Poison -- The Flaming Vulva -- The Women of Ebony -- The Golden Fleece -- The Battle of the Amazons -- The Physiology of Marriage -- The Mirrored Room -- Le Chevalier d'Eon -- The Ambiguous Woman -- Games with Masks -- The Little Vampire -- The Plaster Venus -- The Mummies -- The Priestess of Love -- The Woman with the Fetish -- Final Encounter -- The Painted Nails.

ISBN

• 0802139698
• 9780802139696

LCCN

2002035447

OCLC

• ocm50761326
• 50761326
• SCSB-9179730

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library