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Illuminating the dark side of the erotic, these interwoven stories explore obsession, violence, and the thin line between sex and death. Under a Mediterranean sun a man searches for the Temple of Zeus as his wife awaits her stalker; a sex worker at an illegal fetish club contemplates her options; a strike spirals out of control with eerie consequences; and a conflict with noisy neighbours reaches theatrical heights. Driven by lust, greed and revenge, chillingly calm or maddened by rage, Patricia Duncker's characters use every tool at their disposal to get what they want. Unapologetically disturbing and provocative like the B movies that inspired them, Seven Tales of Sex and Death holds up a mirror to humanity at its most flawed, ruthless and seductive. No library descriptions found. |
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For me the best of them were "The Strike" in which she imagines a writer trapped in rural France when a strike gets out of hand and leads to a more general breakdown in society, and the final story "My Emphasis", a dark farce which also centres on a writer in France, who concocts a plan to deal with noisy neighbours which rebounds on her when her lies and half-truths are exposed. ( )