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Seduction
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'Sexy, unpredictable, sometime alarming, always entertaining.
Most of the stories are previously unpublished, they're English,
South African and American. There is one oddity - an awful
lot of them seem to involve academics. The academics tend
to be overweight or dreary to look at, but they star in the
best stories... This is nice work - energetic, provocative,
not to be taken lying down.'
The Observer
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Now that sex is more fraught with danger than ever, seduction
is an end in itself. The descent into voluptuousness, the
surrender of control, pre-coital embarrassment - these are
the essential elements of the chase. Here they produce stories
as rich and varied as the game of love and chance itself.
'It's a hot little number this one, a page turning selection
of steamy scenarios. Twelve writers with brutal humour and
insight, explore seduction's many faces: the surrender of
control, oblivion of passion and post-coital embarrassment.'
The Weekly Journal
'An unsettling but wonderfully eclectic collection of stories.'
Midweek
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| Soft Sell - a Fantasy |
A. L. Barker |
| The Blue Woman |
Mary Flanagan |
| Strategy and Siege |
Damon Galgut |
| Strangeness and Charm |
Steven Kelly |
| Sukie |
Francis King |
| Jack Says |
Deborah Levy |
| Heron Cottage |
Shena Mackay |
| The Good Butler |
Tony Peake |
| Incubus or The Impossibility of
Self-Determination as to Desire |
Will Self |
| Anu and Le-lea |
Ray Shell |
| Star Light; Star Bright - a Euro
Story |
Barbara Trapido |
| Short Eyes and the Green Dice |
Elizabeth Young |
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Seduction, edited by Tony Peake
Paperback: Serpent's Tail, London, 1994. 224pp. ISBN 1-85242-314-5
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