The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (First Edition)
Language: English
Published by Grove Press, New York, 2002
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New York: Grove Press, 2002. First edition, first printing, with full number line. Hardcover. Quarter white cloth over black paper-covered boards, with black spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on jacket flap ($23.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy with no faults. Octavo, 209 pages, red endpapers. Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter. Catherine Millet s candid and controversial erotic memoir, a frank exploration of desire, freedom, and the politics of sexuality. Millet is a French art critic and writer, editor-in-chief of Art Press, and author of numerous books on contemporary art and aesthetics. This memoir, her best-known work, was an international bestseller and widely discussed for its boldness.
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- Title
- The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (First Edition)
- Author
- Millet, Catherine
- Publisher
- Grove Press, New York
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0802117163
- ISBN 13
- 9780802117168
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Seller catalogs
- French Literature
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Review
The book has no sequential narrative. Instead, it offers a frank and extremely graphic celebration of the pursuit and gratification of sex. Millet praises the virtues of anonymous sex, admitting that "I can account for forty-nine men whose sexual organs have penetrated mine and to whom I can attribute a name or, at least, in a few cases, an identity. But I cannot put a number on those that blur into anonymity". Nevertheless, she proceeds to offer page after page of exhausting descriptions of sexual couplings in groups in houses, car parks, offices, toilets, museums--the list and the permutations are endless, as are Millet’s descriptions of her own sexual organs and her ability to perform oral sex. Millet wants to celebrate the personal freedom and physical pleasure that casual, anonymous sex offers a woman, but this is never fully explored beyond her assertion that "the certainty that I could have sexual relations in any situation with any willing party" was "the lungfuls of fresh air you inhale as you walk to the end of the pier". Much of the book’s language is equally prosaic. Ultimately, this is a book about sexual fantasy, but as Millet herself admits, "sexual fantasies are far too personal for them ever really to be shared". Millet is too busy describing the literal nuts and bolts, the grunts and bumps of (resolutely heterosexual) sex to produce eroticism on a par with her obvious models, Pauline Reage’s Story of O and Georges Bataille’s Story of the Eye, which leaves The Sexual Life of Catherine M feeling rather naughty, but strangely dated.--Jerry Brotton
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