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Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret but mostly pleasure , City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In , nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.
From the multitalented and versatile Gloria Vanderbilt comes a passionate, sensual, witty, and puzzling tale of erotic obsession, beauty, and revenge, told in tandem by two women obsessed with the same man - and, ultimately, with each other. Talbot Bingham is a renowned architectural genius who, with his formidable wife, Priscilla, creates an architectural community.
When he dies unexpectedly in the middle of their 10th wedding anniversary celebration, the devastated Priscilla is left as keeper of the flame of Talbot's genius.
Going through her husband's archives, she comes unexpectedly upon a pile of neatly tied letters and the shocking secret of her husband's intimate life - a discovery that shatters the foundation of her soul and spirit. Obsession explores the mysteries of the human heart and the nature of sexuality and obsession, provoking questions about who we choose to love - and why. The listener is left to decide if the other woman represents another facet of Priscilla, or if Priscilla herself has invented the other woman who completed the world her husband so recently inhabited. I was surprised that Gloria Vanderbilt would write a books like this and hearing it read in her voice is kind of different.
It lacks something in my opinion it just falls short of good erotica. Your audiobook is waiting…. Obsession An Erotic Tale. By: Gloria Vanderbilt. Narrated by: Gloria Vanderbilt. Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins. People who bought this also bought By: Steven M.
Publisher's Summary The marriages of desire What members say Average Customer Ratings Overall. Amazon Reviews. But still, even with the rules and formats, there is nothing wrong with breaking them. How else are we to push and discover new ways in any art form? I agree on the fact of learning said rules just so you can play with them.
But can a piece rely on just telling? Yeah, if written well then an entire piece can be done by telling, but that is hard to do.
When Priscilla discovers the letters between her husband and his Mistress, I can understand the need to tell, it is a letter format after all and it just explaining things to the reader. But since these letters were of Priscilla discovering and finding out what happened between Talbot and his Mistress, the letters at some points go on for a long while. They just drone on and on.
I get it that Bee the Mistress , wants to gush to Talbot of what happens between them, their history, but it really is a huge info dump. One of the points of this story is to trick you into thinking if Priscilla and Bee may be the same person. Talbot goes out of his way to find someone else who looks like Priscilla, not Bee, and the other women that Bee talks about in her letters. But before all this after the bulk of the letters end, we get roughly two dreams per woman.
In these dreams Gloria just tells you what happens, what the women who dream whichever dream want to do to the other woman, and then they wake up and forget said dreams. It is nothing but telling, that is all.
Bee telling the reader what she wants to do to Priscilla, by bringing her to the home Talbot built for her; or Priscilla herself going to said villa and confronting Bee in person. Nothing but explaining what they do, instead of showing us in these dreams what happens. All the while these dreams are building up to a confrontation between the two; we are tugged up on the book climax roller-coaster, Gloria constructed it and pulled the lever, letting us slowly be taken up the tracks to the top.
This happens with Priscilla going to the club disguised as Bee.
Story ends. Right there the roller-coaster Gloria builds and sends you on just drops you straight down.
This book is also supposed to be an erotic novel. In the end, for a one hundred and forty-four page novel, this could have been a short story.
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