Author: Constance Debre
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1635901758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
A novel of lesbian identity and motherhood, and the societal pressures that place them in opposition. The daughter of an illustrious French family whose members include a former Prime Minister, a model, and a journalist, Constance Debré abandoned her marriage and legal career in 2015 to write full-time and begin a relationship with a woman. Her transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian was chronicled in her 2018 novel Play boy, praised by Virginie Despentes for its writing that is at once “flippant and consumed by anxiety.” In Love Me Tender, Debré goes on to further describe the consequences of that life-changing decision. Her husband, Laurent, seeks to permanently separate her from their eight-year old child. Vilified in divorce court by her ex, she loses custody of her son and is allowed to see him only once every two weeks for a supervised hour. Deprived of her child, Debré gives up her two-bedroom apartment and bounces between borrowed apartments, hotel rooms, and a studio the size of a cell. She involves herself in brief affairs with numerous women who vary in age, body type, language, and lifestyle. But the closer she gets to them, the more distant she feels. Apart from cigarettes and sex, her life is completely ascetic: a regime of intense reading and writing, interrupted only by sleep and athletic swimming. She shuns any place where she might observe children, avoiding playgrounds and parks “as if they were cluster bombs ready to explode, riddling her body with pieces of shrapnel.” Writing graphically about sex, rupture, longing, and despair in the first person, Debré’s work is often compared with the punk-era writings of Guillaume Dustan and Herve Guibert, whose work she has championed. As she says of Guibert: “I love him because he says I and he’s a pornographer. That seems to be essential when you write. Otherwise you don’t say anything.” But in Love Me Tender, Debré speaks courageously of love in its many forms, reframing what it means to be a mother beyond conventional expectations.
Love Me Tender
Author: Constance Debre
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1635901758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
A novel of lesbian identity and motherhood, and the societal pressures that place them in opposition. The daughter of an illustrious French family whose members include a former Prime Minister, a model, and a journalist, Constance Debré abandoned her marriage and legal career in 2015 to write full-time and begin a relationship with a woman. Her transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian was chronicled in her 2018 novel Play boy, praised by Virginie Despentes for its writing that is at once “flippant and consumed by anxiety.” In Love Me Tender, Debré goes on to further describe the consequences of that life-changing decision. Her husband, Laurent, seeks to permanently separate her from their eight-year old child. Vilified in divorce court by her ex, she loses custody of her son and is allowed to see him only once every two weeks for a supervised hour. Deprived of her child, Debré gives up her two-bedroom apartment and bounces between borrowed apartments, hotel rooms, and a studio the size of a cell. She involves herself in brief affairs with numerous women who vary in age, body type, language, and lifestyle. But the closer she gets to them, the more distant she feels. Apart from cigarettes and sex, her life is completely ascetic: a regime of intense reading and writing, interrupted only by sleep and athletic swimming. She shuns any place where she might observe children, avoiding playgrounds and parks “as if they were cluster bombs ready to explode, riddling her body with pieces of shrapnel.” Writing graphically about sex, rupture, longing, and despair in the first person, Debré’s work is often compared with the punk-era writings of Guillaume Dustan and Herve Guibert, whose work she has championed. As she says of Guibert: “I love him because he says I and he’s a pornographer. That seems to be essential when you write. Otherwise you don’t say anything.” But in Love Me Tender, Debré speaks courageously of love in its many forms, reframing what it means to be a mother beyond conventional expectations.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1635901758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
A novel of lesbian identity and motherhood, and the societal pressures that place them in opposition. The daughter of an illustrious French family whose members include a former Prime Minister, a model, and a journalist, Constance Debré abandoned her marriage and legal career in 2015 to write full-time and begin a relationship with a woman. Her transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian was chronicled in her 2018 novel Play boy, praised by Virginie Despentes for its writing that is at once “flippant and consumed by anxiety.” In Love Me Tender, Debré goes on to further describe the consequences of that life-changing decision. Her husband, Laurent, seeks to permanently separate her from their eight-year old child. Vilified in divorce court by her ex, she loses custody of her son and is allowed to see him only once every two weeks for a supervised hour. Deprived of her child, Debré gives up her two-bedroom apartment and bounces between borrowed apartments, hotel rooms, and a studio the size of a cell. She involves herself in brief affairs with numerous women who vary in age, body type, language, and lifestyle. But the closer she gets to them, the more distant she feels. Apart from cigarettes and sex, her life is completely ascetic: a regime of intense reading and writing, interrupted only by sleep and athletic swimming. She shuns any place where she might observe children, avoiding playgrounds and parks “as if they were cluster bombs ready to explode, riddling her body with pieces of shrapnel.” Writing graphically about sex, rupture, longing, and despair in the first person, Debré’s work is often compared with the punk-era writings of Guillaume Dustan and Herve Guibert, whose work she has championed. As she says of Guibert: “I love him because he says I and he’s a pornographer. That seems to be essential when you write. Otherwise you don’t say anything.” But in Love Me Tender, Debré speaks courageously of love in its many forms, reframing what it means to be a mother beyond conventional expectations.
Food: A Love Story
Author: Jim Gaffigan
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 080414043X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A brilliantly funny tribute to the simple pleasures of eating” (Parade) from the author of Dad Is Fat Have you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn’t have to share with your children? Gotten hungry while watching a dog food commercial? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry? If you answered yes to any of the following questions, you are pretty pathetic, but you are not alone. Feast along with America’s favorite food comedian, bestselling author, and male supermodel Jim Gaffigan as he digs into his specialty: stuffing his face. Food: A Love Story is an in-depth, thoroughly uninformed look at everything from health food to things that people actually enjoy eating.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 080414043X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A brilliantly funny tribute to the simple pleasures of eating” (Parade) from the author of Dad Is Fat Have you ever finished a meal that tasted horrible but not noticed until the last bite? Eaten in your car so you wouldn’t have to share with your children? Gotten hungry while watching a dog food commercial? Does the presence of green vegetables make you angry? If you answered yes to any of the following questions, you are pretty pathetic, but you are not alone. Feast along with America’s favorite food comedian, bestselling author, and male supermodel Jim Gaffigan as he digs into his specialty: stuffing his face. Food: A Love Story is an in-depth, thoroughly uninformed look at everything from health food to things that people actually enjoy eating.
Love's Tender Fury
Author: Jennifer Wilde
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497698146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This classic New York Times–bestselling historical romance tells the enthralling, passionate story of a young English woman who is wrongly convicted of a crime and auctioned off to the highest bidder in the American colonies Born out of wedlock to a London barmaid, Marietta Danver yearns to live life to its fullest despite her humble origins. But her dreams of love and happiness almost die in Newgate Prison, where she is convicted of a crime she didn’t commit and deported to North America to be sold into indentured servitude. In the wild Carolinas, Marietta uses her beauty to survive. But in doing so she arouses unruly passions in the hearts of three men: Derek Hawke, the enigmatic planter who buys Marietta for an outrageous sum; brash, charming Jeff Rawlins, who sweeps her away to Louisiana; and a gentleman whose fervor may conceal a violent madness. From New Orleans’ red-light district to a fashionable estate in Natchez, from the struggles of a life of bondage to the perils of helping to transport slaves to freedom, Marietta vows to prevail and find a true and lasting love. The Marietta Danver Trilogy also includes Love Me, Marietta and When Love Commands.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497698146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
This classic New York Times–bestselling historical romance tells the enthralling, passionate story of a young English woman who is wrongly convicted of a crime and auctioned off to the highest bidder in the American colonies Born out of wedlock to a London barmaid, Marietta Danver yearns to live life to its fullest despite her humble origins. But her dreams of love and happiness almost die in Newgate Prison, where she is convicted of a crime she didn’t commit and deported to North America to be sold into indentured servitude. In the wild Carolinas, Marietta uses her beauty to survive. But in doing so she arouses unruly passions in the hearts of three men: Derek Hawke, the enigmatic planter who buys Marietta for an outrageous sum; brash, charming Jeff Rawlins, who sweeps her away to Louisiana; and a gentleman whose fervor may conceal a violent madness. From New Orleans’ red-light district to a fashionable estate in Natchez, from the struggles of a life of bondage to the perils of helping to transport slaves to freedom, Marietta vows to prevail and find a true and lasting love. The Marietta Danver Trilogy also includes Love Me, Marietta and When Love Commands.
Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender
Author: Elvis Presley
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735231222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The king of rock-and-roll's #1 hit song "Love Me Tender" is now an endearing picture book Adapted from the unforgettable classic song, Elvis Presley's Love MeTender is a heartwarming ode to the special bond between children and the adults who love and care for them--be they parents, grandparents, adoptive parents, aunts, uncles, or guardians. With its simple, timeless message, Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender is destined to join Guess How Much I Love You as a baby shower staple. And the sweet, inclusive illustrations make it a book every family will treasure "all through the years, 'till the end of time."
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735231222
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The king of rock-and-roll's #1 hit song "Love Me Tender" is now an endearing picture book Adapted from the unforgettable classic song, Elvis Presley's Love MeTender is a heartwarming ode to the special bond between children and the adults who love and care for them--be they parents, grandparents, adoptive parents, aunts, uncles, or guardians. With its simple, timeless message, Elvis Presley's Love Me Tender is destined to join Guess How Much I Love You as a baby shower staple. And the sweet, inclusive illustrations make it a book every family will treasure "all through the years, 'till the end of time."
The Tenderest Lover
Author: Walt Whitman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Erotic poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A Love So Tender
Author: Tracey V. Bateman
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 1628366982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
All her life, Aimee longed to secure Greg's affections. When she finally admits failure, Aimee flees to the sanctuary of her aunt and uncle's orphanage and finds Georgie - or rather, the motherless baby finds her. The 1870s lend little assistance to Rex Donnelly as he searches for his son. After six years he locates the boy in the company of the spirited Aimee Riley and knows he's got his work cut out for him. She is determined to keep her "son" and refuses to extend the slightest courtesy to the widower. Yet, there is an attraction that sparks between the adults. Could the Lord have plans to draw them together in a love so tender - not just as a father and mother for little Georgie, but also as man and wife?
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 1628366982
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
All her life, Aimee longed to secure Greg's affections. When she finally admits failure, Aimee flees to the sanctuary of her aunt and uncle's orphanage and finds Georgie - or rather, the motherless baby finds her. The 1870s lend little assistance to Rex Donnelly as he searches for his son. After six years he locates the boy in the company of the spirited Aimee Riley and knows he's got his work cut out for him. She is determined to keep her "son" and refuses to extend the slightest courtesy to the widower. Yet, there is an attraction that sparks between the adults. Could the Lord have plans to draw them together in a love so tender - not just as a father and mother for little Georgie, but also as man and wife?
The Tender Land
Author: Kathleen Finneran
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780618340743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The author describes the relationships and inner workings of a family reeling from the loss of a beloved son and brother, one who gave no indication that his life was so intolerable that he would seek to end it.
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780618340743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The author describes the relationships and inner workings of a family reeling from the loss of a beloved son and brother, one who gave no indication that his life was so intolerable that he would seek to end it.
Tender Is the Flesh
Author: Agustina Bazterrica
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982150920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982150920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.
Love Me Tender
Author: Sandra Hill
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062304712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
He's a not-so-charming prince . . . Prince Pedro Tomas "P.T." de la Ferrama is the owner of a high-end shoe company that promises comfort in addition to fashion. But when Cynthia "the Shark" Sullivan, a hot-shot Wall Street trader, claims his shoes gave her a corn that caused her to lose her job, P.T. must do some serious damage control using his royal charisma—a strategy that's never failed him. But the leggy strawberry blonde is immune to his charms, much to his frustration. For all he can think about is getting tangled in the sheets with her. She's a Wall Street Cinderella . . . Cynthia never settles for less than the best. So when her luxury-brand shoes don't live up to the company's guarantee of quality, she vows to make them pay. But when she meets P.T., she doesn't count on being insanely attracted to him. She can't afford any distractions if she hopes to take his company to the cleaners. But the more she gets to know this unlikely prince, the more she finds herself wishing he'll place a glass slipper on her foot—and make her his princess.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062304712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
He's a not-so-charming prince . . . Prince Pedro Tomas "P.T." de la Ferrama is the owner of a high-end shoe company that promises comfort in addition to fashion. But when Cynthia "the Shark" Sullivan, a hot-shot Wall Street trader, claims his shoes gave her a corn that caused her to lose her job, P.T. must do some serious damage control using his royal charisma—a strategy that's never failed him. But the leggy strawberry blonde is immune to his charms, much to his frustration. For all he can think about is getting tangled in the sheets with her. She's a Wall Street Cinderella . . . Cynthia never settles for less than the best. So when her luxury-brand shoes don't live up to the company's guarantee of quality, she vows to make them pay. But when she meets P.T., she doesn't count on being insanely attracted to him. She can't afford any distractions if she hopes to take his company to the cleaners. But the more she gets to know this unlikely prince, the more she finds herself wishing he'll place a glass slipper on her foot—and make her his princess.
The Russian's Tender Lover
Author: Elizabeth Lennox
Publisher: Elizabeth Lennox Books (www.ElizabethLennox.com)
ISBN: 1940134110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Darcy DiAngelo had two secret lives: one in the public eye, courting the paparazzi and dancing the night away with gorgeous men all over the globe, the other hiding from her Mafia boss father who would try and marry her off to the highest bidder. Neither was the true Darcy and she longed to have the freedom to be herself. Billionaire businessman Sergei Anchova would not endure any insult to his family reputation. When his sister’s fiancée disappears claiming to be in love with the party girl Darcy DiAngelo, the issue must be resolved. Bringing the glamor girl to a private island while he searched for the missing fiancée was not only expedient, but perhaps he could teach the woman how to be a productive member of society during her stay. But Darcy taught Sergei the meaning of the words love and passion. She also showed him he shouldn’t believe everything he read in the tabloids and that the world really could be a bit less mercenary if he chose to look for the good in people.
Publisher: Elizabeth Lennox Books (www.ElizabethLennox.com)
ISBN: 1940134110
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Darcy DiAngelo had two secret lives: one in the public eye, courting the paparazzi and dancing the night away with gorgeous men all over the globe, the other hiding from her Mafia boss father who would try and marry her off to the highest bidder. Neither was the true Darcy and she longed to have the freedom to be herself. Billionaire businessman Sergei Anchova would not endure any insult to his family reputation. When his sister’s fiancée disappears claiming to be in love with the party girl Darcy DiAngelo, the issue must be resolved. Bringing the glamor girl to a private island while he searched for the missing fiancée was not only expedient, but perhaps he could teach the woman how to be a productive member of society during her stay. But Darcy taught Sergei the meaning of the words love and passion. She also showed him he shouldn’t believe everything he read in the tabloids and that the world really could be a bit less mercenary if he chose to look for the good in people.