Erotic Interludes: Tales Told by Women

by Lonnie Garfield Barbach

Book Overview

With her groundbreaking works of erotica, Lonnie Barbach has given women a forum to express their most passionate and imaginative fantasies about sex and sexual encounters. These graphic stories,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385233191
• ISBN13: 9780385233194
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Terrific Anthology

I bought this when I looked at the index and saw one of the authors is Tee A. Corinne who truly knows how to deliver a story. This is a Keeper! I found the following information on the book - From Publishers Weekly What do women want sexually? Here 21 women writers, some pseudonymous, spin a variety of candid erotic fantasies in an attempt to answer the question with a turn-on for every taste and circumstance. One of the most imaginative, "The House of the Twin Jewels," describes a futuristic brothel for female patrons. "A Japanese Play" features group sex for money while the camera rolls. "The Scavenger Hunt" and "Humming" celebrate lesbian love, the latter affording a healing experience for one partner, her "aging body wracked these days with the storms of menopause." In "Fearful Symmetry" the handicapped male lover has a prosthetic arm. "Cradles of Light" mingles autoerotic enjoyments with memories of the past. Clinical therapist Barbach has written and edited several volumes (including the nonfiction Pleasures: Women Write Erotica designed to help women fulfill their sensual potential. Her introductory comments to this book stress the need for affirmation, tenderness and mystery. Unhappily, many of the stories suffer from awkwardly sentimental and amateurish writing. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the book - 21 erotic short stories by women, for women. "In this intense exploration of seduction, romance, and erotic fantasy, Lonnie Barbach has collected 21 tales that stimulate the mind as well-as the .body. These graphic stories, filled with the unexpected and forbidden, brilliantly capture the myriad layers, colors, and visions of every woman's sexuality. These stories - by and about women, young and old, married and single, heterosexual and lesbian - involve mysterious partners, racy games, risqué encounters, and more. The result is a classic work of passion that can be used as a starting point for shared intimacies or as a pleasure experienced alone." I. Adventure and risk. -- The private life of Mrs. Herman / Udana Power -- Love letters / Marilyn Harris Kriegel -- Strangers in the universe / Signe Hammer -- Games / Grace Zabriskie -- An American in Paris / Kim Chernin -- Berlioz & the ghetto blaster / Valerie Kelly -- The house of the twin jewels / Gayle Feyrer. II. Mystery. -- Birthing / Doraine Poretz -- Leaving Sasha, or The bed makes the man / Susan Block -- The scavenger hunt / Nisa Donnelly -- Blood oranges / Deena Metzger -- The hunters / Suzanne Miller. III. The forbidden. -- Auto erotic / Sharon S. Mayes -- A long, long time / Carolyn Banks -- Humming / Sandy Boucher -- Fearful symmetry / Rebecca Silver -- A Japanese play / Victoria Starr. IV. The moment. -- Cradles of light / Susan Griffin -- One Florida night / Cucu Lee -- The woman in love / Tee A.

Terrific Anthology

I bought this when I looked at the index and saw one of the authors is Tee A. Corinne who truly knows how to deliver a story. This is a Keeper! From the book - 21 erotic short stories by women, for women. "In this intense exploration of seduction, romance, and erotic fantasy, Lonnie Barbach has collected 21 tales that stimulate the mind as well-as the .body. These graphic stories, filled with the unexpected and forbidden, brilliantly capture the myriad layers, colors, and visions of every woman's sexuality. These stories - by and about women, young and old, married and single, heterosexual and lesbian - involve mysterious partners, racy games, risqué encounters, and more. The result is a classic work of passion that can be used as a starting point for shared intimacies or as a pleasure experienced alone."

Terrific Anthology

I bought this when I looked at the index and saw one of the authors is Tee A. Corinne who truly knows how to deliver a story. This is a Keeper! I found the following information on the book - From Publishers Weekly What do women want sexually? Here 21 women writers, some pseudonymous, spin a variety of candid erotic fantasies in an attempt to answer the question with a turn-on for every taste and circumstance. One of the most imaginative, "The House of the Twin Jewels," describes a futuristic brothel for female patrons. "A Japanese Play" features group sex for money while the camera rolls. "The Scavenger Hunt" and "Humming" celebrate lesbian love, the latter affording a healing experience for one partner, her "aging body wracked these days with the storms of menopause." In "Fearful Symmetry" the handicapped male lover has a prosthetic arm. "Cradles of Light" mingles autoerotic enjoyments with memories of the past. Clinical therapist Barbach has written and edited several volumes (including the nonfiction Pleasures: Women Write Erotica designed to help women fulfill their sensual potential. Her introductory comments to this book stress the need for affirmation, tenderness and mystery. Unhappily, many of the stories suffer from awkwardly sentimental and amateurish writing. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the book - 21 erotic short stories by women, for women. "In this intense exploration of seduction, romance, and erotic fantasy, Lonnie Barbach has collected 21 tales that stimulate the mind as well-as the .body. These graphic stories, filled with the unexpected and forbidden, brilliantly capture the myriad layers, colors, and visions of every woman's sexuality. These stories - by and about women, young and old, married and single, heterosexual and lesbian - involve mysterious partners, racy games, risqué encounters, and more. The result is a classic work of passion that can be used as a starting point for shared intimacies or as a pleasure experienced alone."