The Love-talkers - Hardcover

Gail Wronsky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967600332 ISBN 13: 9780967600338

Publisher: Hollyridge Pr, 2001

Synopsis

This first novel from poet Gail Wronsky is the story of two American couples caught up in the erotic power of a strange book they find in a rare bookshop.

About this title

From the Author:

I'd like to tell you how The Love-talkers came about: I wanted to write an erotic love poem to Mexico. But a poem wasn't a big enough form for everything I wanted to include: mythology, landscape, characters, ideas. And I wanted to reinvest eroticism with beautiful language, and with politics. I'm disappointed and turned off by most of what passes for erotic literature in contemporary U.S.--descriptions of what once might have been considered kinky sexual behaviors have become so banal, so commonplace--fifth grade children talk about anal sex, multiple sexual partners, bondage, you name it, on the school bus, as if it were nothing, which I guess really it is--I wanted to "do" eroticism, as it were, without sounding like a fifth grader on the school bus. To remind myself and others that language itself is an erotic thing.

From the Inside Flap:

"The language of love is many languages"--and poet Gail Wronsky speaks them all in her first novel, The Love-talkers. Narrated by a mystical woman of European background, this is the story of two American couples who arrive in Mexico City to explore the ancient culture in the hopes of changing their lives. In a bookshop, the younger of the two pairs comes across a text of unknown authorship and are instantly drawn into the spell of the onionskin, leather-bound pages. Part instruction manual, part good luck charm, The Love-talkers, with its erotic prose and amorous illustrations, imparts the tale of a man and woman wildly, miraculously in love. The book has the power to turn immortal longing into sexual reality. Everyone who touches the book is altered by it, sexually awakened, their life-forces renewed. The beauty of Gail Wronsky's poetic language has never been better displayed than in The Love-talkers. She writes with a flame that whispers have ignited. Mexico C! ity, with its parks and cathedrals and archeological riches, provides a lush backdrop for the story. The book is sumptuously rendered and celebrates passionate imagination with all the sublime joy of physical love. Wronsky's elegiac style summons up the magic of Latin American fiction in this novel of desire which brings us into the depths of erotic charge. From ecstatic awakenings to feverish enactments of appetite, Wronsky's novel reveals what happens when we find our deepest yearnings made true.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hollyridge Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0967600332
• ISBN 13: 9780967600338
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 140