Showing results for "Lusts" in Literary Fiction

In LA Times First Fiction Award winner Maggie Shipstead's "Angel Lust", Simon Orff, a thrice-married movie producer, departs for his deceased father’s house, daughters selfishly in tow. “If he had to referee their squabbles and navigate their quicksilver emotions while sifting through his father’s possessions, he hoped the house would not seem so empty, or he hoped at least the emptiness would be neutral.” "If only," writes Halimah Marcus, co-editor of Electric Literature, in her introduction.

Kamikaze Lust takes the listener on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America. Smart, hardboiled, and humorous, the novel taps the American obsession with sex and death, sex and popular culture, sex and the written word, sex and pornography, sex and green M&Ms, and, of course, the perennial sex and love. Sanders voices a feminism buried in desire that nevertheless insists on sprouting and blossoming.

The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a...

Join Joseph in the battle between love and lust. The stakes are high. On the one hand, his family is on the line, but on the other, there's the one that got away; his high school love. Does he choose to stay and continue the beautiful life he made with his wife and son, or does he go back to the woman he had once felt so much for when he was young?

Manche Küchen sehen heute aus wie Cockpits, und die Wahl des richtigen Olivenöls wird zur Schicksalsfrage, deren Beantwortung über die ästhetische Kompetenz und die soziale Bonität des ambitionierten Amateurkochs entscheidet. "Kochen ist ja soooo kreativ", wird da geseufzt, vorausgesetzt man weiß, wo man den angesagten In-Balsamico kaufen kann.

Child prodigy Joshua Bland’s life has been anything but bland. Joshua’s father abandons him and his mentally imbalanced mother when he is a young boy, leaving him to be raised by a cynical, hostile, and self-doubting stepfather. When Joshua loses a national knowledge competition, his family’s reaction puts him on the path to becoming a World War II veteran, best-selling author, successful producer, and absentee father.

"For Christ sake don’t become a fluffmeister," are the last words Barnaby Griswold gets from his father. But despite trying to turn out otherwise, Barnaby knows himself a fool and already makes his living as a fluffmeister, as a puffer-up of investments. Well-bred, more or less educated, friendly to everyone, Barnaby is in fact foolishly successful. Until he blows it all. At 46, disgraced and broke and lonely, Barnaby must repair his life. Maybe, just maybe, he’ll find out that doing the foolish thing can lead to redemption.

Nach einer unschönen Ehe kauft sich Tessa Carmichael eine kleine Farm und lebt dort recht zurückgezogen am Rande einer Kleinstadt. Eines Abends steht ein Soldat vor ihrer Tür und behauptet, diese Farm würde ihm gehören. Liam Thompson hat nicht ganz Unrecht, Tessa kennt sein Gesicht aus dem Fernsehen. Er ist der Soldat, der fünf Jahre lang ein Gefangener von Terroristen war. Alle hatten ihn für tot gehalten und so wurde die Farm nach dem Tod seiner Großmutter an Tessa verkauft. Liam sieht so müde aus, dass Tessa ihn nicht einfach wegschicken will, sie lässt ihn in ihr Haus.

The charming, and not entirely trustworthy, unnamed narrator of The Last Night at the Ritz invites three friends to join her for lunch at the elegant Ritz-Carlton in Boston to celebrate her birthday. Two of them, Gay and Len, are a long-married couple and her best friends from college. The third, Wes, was once her lover. As the afternoon gives way to evening and as the drinks flow, the past and present intrude upon the festivities and the atmosphere turns somber. Before the night is through, truths and secrets slip out that will change their relationships forever.

For fans of Lily King’s Writers & Lovers comes a captivating debut novel about the complexities of love and the unpredictable bonds that change our lives Maggie Hoyt is a quick-witted, house-sitting LA actress who’s dated one too many DJs for her liking. An incorrigible insomniac, she...

Capturing in rich detail the freewheeling '60s, One Minus One explores a young woman’s journey toward self-realization following a painful divorce. In 1969, 30-year-old Emily Bean moves to a town in New Hampshire’s coastal region to take a job as a high-school teacher. Struggling with the challenges of single life and still in love with her ex-husband, David, Emily attracts the attention of local radio personality Warren, and also Cliff, the head of the high-school English department, who might perhaps take David’s place in her life.

"I minderne er du tydelig. I drømmene er du virkelig, og i den virtuelle verden er du min. Dine læber finder igen mine. Din tunge er så legende, som jeg husker den. Din natur er så sanselig og nysgerrig. Din latter så befriende. Dine hænder er så undersøgende. Dine kys er så insisterende. Din krop er så grådig, men samtidig eftergivende. Jeg kan mærke varmen fra din krop, der omslutter min pik. Jeg kan fornemme din våde, glatte klit på mine fingerspidser, og jeg kan mærke, hvordan du strammer til og klemmer om mig, lige inden du kommer.

Erotisk novell om Bent, en frånskild man som håller sig för sig själv. En dag ser han sin granne Viola på stranden och det blir starten på ett hett förhållande mellan dem två. Camille Bech (f. 1963) är en känd författare av erotisk litteratur. Hon har bland annat gett ut "Advokaten" (2015), "Anais" (2016) och "Jul med Joeleen" (2017).