- Title:
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100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed
- Written by:
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Melissa P.
- Read by:
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Melissa Parente
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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3
- Duration:
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3 hours 32 minutes
- Published:
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March 01 2006
- Available Date:
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March 01 2006
- Age Category:
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Adult - Explicit
- ISBN:
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1741635055
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781741635058
- Genres:
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Fiction; Erotica; Memoirs; Sex & Sexuality
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestseller
Shortlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2006
“Melissa tells herself no fairy tales – and therein lies the odd, potent purity of these pages.”
Publishers Weekly
“A book that has had a wallop of an impact … readers have simply devoured it.”
The New York Times
A stunning erotic debut.
Melissa begins her diary a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of self-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older, some met through schoolmates, others through newspaper ads and internet chat rooms. In graphic detail she describes her entry into a Dante-esque underworld of eroticism, where she willingly participates in group sex and sadomasochism, as well as casual pickups. Melissa's secret life is concealed from family and friends, revealed only in her diary entries.
Told with disarming candour, Melissa P.'s bittersweet tour of extreme desires is as poignant as it is titillating.
"This novel makes a rather sophisticated commentary on desire, showing it as stemming from a lack in the self which it ceaselessly attempts to heal."
The Observer
"…seething with reckless confidence, isolated angst and portentous convictions of the romanticised self.”
The Sunday Telegraph
“It is easy to see why it was a massive bestseller in Italy … clever, dark, gothic-style, twenty-first century fairy tale.”
The Barcelona Review