22 Minutes Of Unconditional Love /P

Book Title: 22 Minutes Of Unconditional Love /P
ISBN: 9781250798657
By Author(s):MERKIN DAPHNE
By Publisher:HOLTZBRINCK US
Format:PB

Daphne Merkin meets the formidable challenge of describing female lust and romantic obsession with all the desired daring, candor, and skill. The result is a bracingly honest, keenly insightful, utterly compelling book. Sigrid Nunez, author ofThe Friend

A harrowing, compulsively readable novel about breaking free of sexual obsession

A novel of unsurpassed candor, punctuated by bold ruminations on love, marriage, family, sex, gender, and relationships,22 Minutes of Unconditional Lovedepicts one womans psychological descent into sexual captivity. This is the story of the extremes to which she will go to achieve erotic blissand of her struggle to regain her soul.

As Daphne Merkins audacious new novel opens, a wife and mother looks back at the moment when her life as a young book editor is upended by a casual encounter with an intriguing man who seems to intuit her every thought.

Convinced shes foundthe one, Judith Stone succumbs to the push and pull of her sexual entanglement with Howard Rose, constantly seeking his attention and approval. That is, until she realizes that beneath his erotic obsession with her, Howard is intent on obliterating any sense of self she possesses. As Merkin writes, his was the allure of remoteness, affection edged in ice. Escaping Howards graspand her own perverse enjoyment of being under his controlwill test the limits of Judiths capacity to resist the siren call of submission.

Narrated by Judith in a time before the #MeToo movement,22 Minutes of Unconditional Lovecharts the persistent hold the past has on us and the way it shapes our present.