Autobiography of my Body - Softcover

Guy, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451172523 ISBN 13: 9780451172525

Publisher: Signet, 1992

Synopsis

As he embarks on a relationship with a sexually insatiable woman, Charles Bradford plumbs the depths of sexual desire and fantasy, entering an erotic, complex, dangerous, and destructive world. Reprint.

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From Library Journal:

Recovering from a disastrous marriage, Charles Bradford returns to Pittsburgh to be near his ailing father. There he encounters Andrea, and they embark on a heated affair that causes Charles to reexamine his life. Starved of affection as a child and convinced that he has failed as an adult, Charles embraces sex as a salve for his psychic wounds. Charles's odyssey takes him into many back alleys and dead ends, but eventually forces him to confront his own emotional and sexual identity. "I believe in talking about the life of the body," says Charles. "If we don't acknowledge it, if we don't make it part of us, it poisons our lives." This is a novel that takes the body seriously; the sex (all heterosexual) is steamy and frequent, but never gratuitous. Though not for the prudish, this exceptional novel by the author of Football Dreams ( LJ 12/15/80) and Second Brother ( LJ 10/1/85) deserves a wide audience. Recommended.
- David Keymer, SUNY Inst. of Technology, Utica
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Returning home to Pittsburgh after a failed marriage, the protagonist recalls the sexual adventures that haunt his past.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Signet
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0451172523
• ISBN 13: 9780451172525
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400