The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction

by Anna Monardo, Don DeLillo, Mary Gordon, et al.

They imbued their art with the truth about love and sex and seduction. They pushed erotic writing to the center stage of American fiction. They took risks, fed our imaginations, and explored our fantasies. Drawn from the works of dozens of the best contemporary American writers, The Good Parts is American writing at its most unabashedly erotic.Contributors include: * Saul Bellow * Harold Brodkey * Philip Roth * Don DeLillo * Scott Spencer * William Styron * Joan Mellen * Kathy Acker * Rebecca Goldstein * Joyce Carol Oates * Lynne Sharon Schwartz * Elizabeth Tallent * Pat Califia * Toni Morrison * Michael Chabon * Robert Boswell * E.L. Doctorow * Mary Gordon * Oscar Hijuelos * Susanna Moore * Pam Durban * Dani Shapiro * Frederick Busch * Mary Caponegro * A.M. Homes * Charles Johnson * Jane Smiley * Robert Olen Butler * Siri Hustvedt * Susan Sontag * Amy Bloom * Steve Erickson * Amanda Filipacchi * Anna Monardo * Maria Flook * Dale Peck * Joan Wickersham * Lynne McFall * Gwendolyn M. Parker * Charles D'Ambrosio * Jennifer Egan * Anchee Min * Rick Moody * Charlotte Watson Sherman * Paula Huston * James McManus * Mary Gaitskill

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425172252
• ISBN13: 9780425172254
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Berkley / Nal
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

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This is a great gift for someone when you are at that certain point in the relationship when something sexy is appropriate. The author really knows his (her?) "good parts". There is a second volume, The Hot Spots and together these books display an amazing knowledge of the more literate erotic writing. After reading some of the selections, you'll want to pick up the book from which they were excerpted.

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