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Title: Neptune & Surf and Other Stories by Marilyn Jaye Lewis ISBN: 1-56201-322-X Publisher: Blue Moon Books Pub. Date: 10 December, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Major Writer Ascending
Comment: Don't miss this book. For more than a decade, Marilyn Jaye Lewis has been crafting some of the best short stories in the English language, and later this year, we can expect the first collection of those polished jewels. Meanwhile, we have a new edition of Neptune & Surf, her late '90s trilogy of novellas which has introduced many readers in America and abroad to the delights of her work -- her musically attuned ear for dialogue, her clear eye for detail, and her outrageous sense of humor. Lewis is a major writer asscending. Check out marilynjayelewis.com for some samples of her work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful book from a wonderful writer
Comment: Simply put, this is a wonderful, beautiful book. Marilyn Jaye Lewis is a superb writer and a brilliant storyteller. Yes, there's sex, erotica, but more importantly she knows how to use the language to evoke and mesmerize. Buy this book, you won't be disappointed!
Rating: 5
Summary: Well-paced stories to make you blush
Comment: Marilyn Jaye Lewis' first book is a collection of three long erotic stories or novellas, and each is characterized by her typical mastery of pacing. Two of the stories feature a naive or faux-naive character whose initiation into a particular erotic practice involves a stimulating mixture of humiliation and excitement: "The Mercy Cure" shows a former convent student who gets to live out her attraction to two former nuns who were her teachers as an adolescent, and "Gianni's Girl" depicts the interrogation of a mobster's girlfriend by one of his associates "who didn't seem to think the forbidden acts were anything but love."
One of the strengths of Lewis' writing has always been the way her characters mix an easy acceptance of certain erotic acts with a sense of intense embarrassment that gives way to mounting arousal. Another strength we see in this book is the author's willingness to spend time developing characters and situations so that the reader understands that all that embarrassment and arousal are coming from complex, sometimes contradictory characters. Finally, there's almost always a deep sense of affection and devotion between the characters, no matter what they put each other through.
I think the most memorable piece in this book is the title story, set near the intersection of Surf and Neptune Avenues in Coney Island, where a former sailor romances a local prostitute. It's impossible in a short review to convey the depth of emotions and erotic obsession contained in this story, or even to explain what's so special about it. All I can say is that you'll remember these characters, the setting, and the emotions long after you put the book down.
I published some of Marilyn's first work in my magazine _Frighten the Horses_ in the early 1990s. It's wonderful to see her work getting the recognition it deserves.
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Title: Naughty Stories from A to Z by Alison Tyler ISBN: 1576121682 Publisher: Pretty Things Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Burning Up: Tales of Erotic Romance by Nina Bangs, Kimberly Raye, Cheryl Holt, Patricia Ryan ISBN: 0312311087 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 03 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bad Boys to Go by Lori Foster, Janelle Denison, Nancy Warren ISBN: 0758205511 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Wilde Thing by Janelle Denison ISBN: 0758203594 Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Say No to Joe? by Lori Foster ISBN: 082177512X Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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