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The Sextine Chapel
Translated by Ian Monk
The delightful and daring entertainment by French author Hervé Le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively user's manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the crisscrossing of their lives and partners makes up a pattern as intricate as the fresco on the ceiling of a chapel . . . Harkening back to another playful book on an intimate subject— Harry Mathews's Singular Pleasures—Hervé Le Tellier's The Sextine Chapel celebrates the wonderful, often random, often excruciating possibilities of sexual intimacy, with something here for just about everyone—and their wife, husband, lover, or passing fancy.
Details
Title
The Sextine Chapel
Author
Hervé Le Tellier
Translated by
Ian Monk
Title First Published
02 July 2011
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
1-56478-575-0
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-575-6
GTIN13 (EAN13)
9781564785756
Publication Date
01 July 2011
Nb of pages
104
Dimensions
5.5 x 8 in.
List Price
$14.95
Excerpt
Anna and Ben. Afterward, Ben opens the curtains. It's January and already night. The red and blue neon lights of the Holiday Inn on Place de République make Anna’s willowy body turn yellow as she lies on her back, naked on the sheet. He kneels by the edge of the bed, kisses her feet, spreads her thighs, grabs her hips and draws her towards him. Anna closes her eyes. She can’t understand a word of what Ben is saying as he penetrates her and starts his slow to and fro. She feels sorry she took German and Spanish at school.
Suddenly, she catches the word darling. It sounds so terribly off. |
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