Meeting the Master: Stories about Mastery, Slavery and the Darker Side of Desire - Softcover

Wald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802135501 ISBN 13: 9780802135506

Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Written with an astonishing voice that penetrates wisdom far beyond the author's years, Meeting the Master is a provocative exploration of the pleasures and rituals of dominance and submission.In Wald's darkly erotic stories, characters enact the intricate and subtle ways that dominance and submission play a role in their daily lives: a young girl dreams of submitting to a boy who's not interested in controlling her, an ex-convict is so accustomed to serving his cellmate that he cannot adjust to the outside world, a professional dominatrix is beaten at her own game by a psychiatrist, and a student lies his way into the home of an army recruiter in order to become his houseboy.A subtle, beautifully crafted collection, Meeting the Master presents an accomplished new author whose lyrical economy and ability to see the erotic in everyday life make her stories a riveting pleasure to read.

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Review:

Elissa Wald is a brave, disturbing new voice in American fiction. She works all the margins of the wild side, and brings us news from those frontiers that very few writers have dared approach. This book is marvellous (Pat Conroy)

Delicate, touching and sometimes devastating writing. (TIME OUT)

Book Description:

*Provocative, evocative, sophisticated erotica in the vein of Nicholson Baker's VOX

About this edition

• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0802135501
• ISBN 13: 9780802135506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224