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Hunter has been flirting with Riley for months, having no idea she was married. Then it was a closed secret. Thank you for visiting Publishers Weekly. Taken by Older Men. This one has a masturbation scene that takes place in a train toilet and a massage scene that goes a bit far.
Here was properly dirty fiction. Dirty in every sense, and without I discover now, flicking through a very well-thumbed copy even having much standard PIV sex in it. With its free-indirect-discourse riffs on sodomy in literature, underwear, bikinis and even weather, it was titillating in quite a new way. The sentences themselves oozed spunk.
I wanted to write like that, but had no idea how. And I wanted to read more of this sort of fiction, in which complex sensual pleasure came from the writing itself, in which even a description of a bunch of flowers becomes dirty: Male writers were definitely the ones to go to for sex, I soon realised. But it seemed that with male writers, the more establishment the figure, the more prizes he had won, the older and more assured he was, the dirtier the book was going to be.
The book is much more important than that. The novel freely gives its pleasures as well as exploring pain. Of course, in one way the answer is obvious: Lodge deals in reality; James with fantasy. Lodge helps us to better understand our world; James provides easy pleasure. Lodge is writing serious fiction; James, erotica. Perhaps in this seminar — which would require one of those end-of-term bottles of cheap wine even to be able to contemplate — we might try to identify the source of passages such as this: It is one of many works that inspired my latest novel: The Seed Collectors is about, among other things, reproduction, inheritance, family and botany.
In other words, sex. I wrote the book partly because I wanted to think about the effects that our sensual pleasures have on our lives. The book is also supposed to be funny, authentic and, ultimately, tragic. I have always included sex in my books, but no one has ever really mentioned it before.
This one has a masturbation scene that takes place in a train toilet and a massage scene that goes a bit far. Then it was a closed secret. But something in the air — that finger-wagging part of the zeitgeist — quietly warns us to be careful. Not if we want to be taken seriously. Perhaps this was why I had not found really explicit sex in the works of the female writers I most liked.
Barnes is without doubt the better writer, but both books are accomplished.
It would be simple to conclude that men have it easier than women and can write what they like. But perhaps because so many more people are now able to publicly review books, share their opinions and generally pour scorn on one another, all writers have become increasingly nervous.
In the last few years I have noticed that students are more reluctant to explore real desire in their work. A Neighbor From Hell Novel. Surrender to Temptation Part IV. Fucked by the Pack Paranormal Erotica. Her Best Friend's Dad Vol.
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