Word: nymphomaniac
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Twenty-three years ago, Charles Jackson wrote The Lost Weekend, a successful first novel about a problem drinker. He has been a problem novelist ever since. The Fall of Valor (1946) was about a homosexual, The Outer Edges (1948) about paranoiacs. This one is about a nymphomaniac, which ought to give it a somewhat more eclectic appeal than the previous two. Trouble is, A Second-Hand Life is more a case history than a novel. Winifred Grainger can't take her mind off sex or, specifically, the male sex organ. But all she does is talk about...
...tells the story of 19-year-old Bernard Chanticleer, son of the curator of pornography at the New York Public Library. In a hurry to achieve manhood in the approved way, young Bernard must choose between the love-sick squarehead who works with him and a sadistic nymphomaniac go-go dancer who doubles as a non-speaking actress in an off-Broadway play. In the end, of course, the right girl wins...
...single character. Unafraid, Virginia Woolf was one of the pioneers of the form; in Orlando, the hero starts out as a man and winds up as woman. More recently, lohn Fowles's The Magus dealt with a girl who was possibly 1) a ghost, 2) a nymphomaniac, 3) an actress, or 4) twins. Peter Israel's The Hen's House is filled with shifting symbolic identities, and Alain Robbe-Grillet's La Maison de Rendez-vous is peopled with so many polyperses that the reader has to beat them off with a stick...
...were free to view the Italian film Love and Marriage, which depicts a sultry Sicilian wife cuckolding her husband everywhere from a public lavatory to his own bed as he sleeps on it. Glancing at U.S. bestsellers, Moore wryly noted that Harold Robbins' The Adventurers "introduces a different nymphomaniac every few chapters," while Masters and Johnson's Human Sexual Response describes hundreds of couples' reactions as they "perform their sexual functions, naturally and artificially, under klieg lights...
...project known as Operation Apollo. Kingsley Amis, whose The James Bond Dossier shows a theoretical as well as a practical interest in secret agentry, plays fair with the reader. Atomic rifle ammunition for issue rifles seems to be the secret of Apollo; the suspected leaks include a friendly neighborhood nymphomaniac, a particularly nasty psychiatrist, an alcoholic-homosexual and the chaplain, who is a devout atheist. Amis keeps the reader looking in the wrong direction until the highly sophisticated and almost credible solution. By this time, one thing is clear. Apollo is really a cover for an even more dreadful military...