Résultats pour "Sex" dans Littérature du monde

Its July 2008, and uber-geek Liquin Sonos journeys back to the one place on Earth where he feels normal: the San Diego Comic-Con. Accompanied by first-time attendee Kate, socially inept would-be animator Windsor, and the flamboyant talent agent Brigham, Liquin delves further into the sex and...

"'Fallow' is witty, sly and seductive, drawing you in and then leaving you wanting more at the end." — The Berkshire Eagle Slyly funny and disarmingly tender, Fallow is the story of a young woman who signs up to be the world’s first in-house corporate surrogate, then finds herself caught up...

“Tender and prickly and consistently confounds expectation . . . the novel is deft and light as air. But it carries a streak of something stronger and sharper than melancholy, tracing a relationship that is at once moving and deeply fraught.” —from the foreword by Katie Kitamura, author of...

What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual description.

THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEUR An iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s 'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS 'I'm a fan' NICOLA STURGEON 'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY 'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL 'A tour de force' NIKESH SHUKLA I mute the...

When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms a gunman chasing two frightened homeless men, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind and, within hours, Lucy is a media hero. The solitary eye-witness is the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, who becomes obsessed with Lucy and signs up as her client - though she seems more interested in the trainer’s body than her own. When the two women find themselves more closely aligned, and can’t stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the real problems start....

The evolution of Taylor Mali the poet could be measured in the number of people his poetry has directly inspired to be teachers. Or the increasing cast of high school and college-age students who perform his words in forensic competitions. This is Taylor in his element: performing in front of live and writhing audiences demanding and receiving all the rough, raw, and authentic passion of Taylor Mali's poetry.

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A Good Morning America Book Club Pick "Kevin Kwan's new book is his most decadent yet." --Entertainment Weekly The iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men...

After the brutal drug raid of a back-alley gay spa in Manila, the boys who make it out alive must decide what kind of men they want to become—and what they’ll risk—in this steamy crime saga. In 2016, the body of a masseur from Manila’s BangBang Touch men’s spa is pulled from a sewage...

Now a major motion picture, starring Simon Baker, Elizabeth Debicki, and Richard Roxburgh. Breath, by renowned Australian author Tim Winton, is a story of risk, of learning one's limits by challenging death. On the wild, lonely coast of Western Australia, two thrill-seeking teenage boys fall...

Nachdem eine Party-Nacht in der Notaufnahme endet, stellt Schröders Schwester ihn vor die Wahl: "Entweder Therapie, oder ich sag's Mama." So findet er sich auf der Couch der Kette rauchenden Psychologin Dr. Schulz wieder und erzählt ihr sein Leben: Von den Saunapartys der Hippie-Eltern. Von der ersten Liebe, die tragisch endete. Von ausverkauften Konzerten seiner Band Villa Hammerschmidt.

In his undead quest for justice, Felix Gomez - detective vampire extraordinaire - has traveled from dusty desert battlefields, to gritty urban barrios, to the deepest corners of outer space. Now he's about to embark on his wildest adventure yet: back to an alternative past of steam-powered technology, telepathic magic, and intrigue more deadly and unforgiving than any he has ever encountered. There, he's a renowned pistolero hired to find the missing daughter of notorious Chinese gangster Wu-Fei.

Este anul 2020, iar la Consiliul de Securitate, idealistul președinte mexican Lorenzo Terán îndrăznește să voteze împotriva Statelor Unite ale Americii. Urmează o cruntă răzbunare a Washingtonului, în urma căreia accesul mexicanilor la telefoane, faxuri și e-mail este oprit. Personajelor nu le mai rămâne decât să se folosească de epistole pentru a-și transmite dorința de putere, bârfele, trădările și cele mai ascunse gânduri, într-o frescă socială extrem de familiară nouă.

The Bawdy Bard: Shakespeare, sex, and the liberation of love In Shakespeare on Sex, listeners will discover William Shakespeare as they’ve never seen him before: a daring playwright determined to challenge Elizabethan sexual mores and champion the freedom of love.

Bloomsbury presents Tailbone by Che Yeun, read by Jessica Lee "An unforgettable debut novel, indelible, knowing, powerful, consuming. This marks the start of a major career." --Alexander Chee, author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel A fierce and gorgeous debut novel about a teenager who...

Among the unconventional attitudes of the Beat writers as they rebelled against the conformism of the late 1940s and 1950s was their relaxed stance on sexuality. At a time when gay people were considered mentally ill or criminal, the Beats celebrated spontaneity and freedom in thought, word, and action. They were queer in the fullest sense of the word: their fluid sexuality challenged all sexual and romantic conventions.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Writer, director, and actor Avan Jogia delivers a bright and acidic poetry collection on fame, rage, love, and sadness. A biting postmortem of the modern age, for fans of Lana Del Rey and Atticus. Avan Jogia grew up as a teen idol. He stumbled into the spotlight during the...

Conversation with Johnny is very special to me, because it constitutes at least my own dual cultural nature, the writer and the individual of power, the local gangster, most of us experienced in the old neighborhoods. Here, they merge into one. Out of this duo comes, I hope, a kind of closure on the stereotype we also all know, that of the godfather myth. On an exalted plain above all of this, to my great pleasure, is the alluring, elusive woman.

La prosa de Carlos Daniel es liviana, llena de vida y refleja los lados oscuros de la condición humana. La oralidad se transparenta en los diálogos de sus verosímiles personajes, unidos por un arquitecto narrador del que el autor echa mano para contar las experiencias que él mismo ha vivido en primera persona. El lenguaje de los personajes, cándido y real, el que hablamos todos, es una mano extendida, sobre todo a los oyentes amateurs, para explorar el devenir de su propia humanidad en el día a día.

David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American culture, and an attempt to understand marriage (one marriage, the idea of marriage, all marriages), The Trouble with Men is exquisitely balanced between the personal and the anthropological, nakedness and restraint.