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Anonymous Sex

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· A married woman has a BDSM-tinged encounter at a work conference· Two young boys on a sleepover feel the first stirrings of desire· In an artificially generated afterlife, anything can be sexual if you want it to be· A young widow on a sleeper train shelters a criminal in her carriage· A bisexual woman cheats on her wife with a baker · Anyone can hire a holographic gigolo in 2098 – but one client gets a lot closer than she'd intended· Female friends, sharing a hotel room, give in to long-repressed feelings· The Rapunzel myth is rewritten... Twenty-seven well-known writers, their imaginations unleashed by anonymity... 'Now this is how you write erotica. And it's delicious to read' Cosmopolitan 'The building tension in "History Lesson" overwhelmed me so much I needed to pause to relieve some tension of my own... The updated variation on "Rapunzel" [is] so horny Anne Rice is weeping with pride in the afterlife... the best part of this book is the anonymity' New York Times 'Gorgeous' Guardian 'Here is sensuality gloriously released from gender, opprobrium, or the constraints of flesh' TLS 'A sizzling assemblage of top-notch literary fiction' LA Times 'An early contender for the steamiest book of the year' POPSUGAR In this diverse and ground-breaking collection there is something for everyone, from teenage experimentation to sex in the afterlife, from married couples pushing their boundaries to illicit encounters between strangers. Perhaps you will guess which story was written by your favourite author, perhaps you won't, but the excitement is in the journey. Twenty-seven erotic stories, anonymously written by: Robert Olen Butler, Catherine Chung, Trent Dalton, Heidi Durrow, Tony Eprile, Louise Erdrich, Jamie Ford, Julia Glass, Peter Godwin, Hillary Jordan, Rebecca Makkai, Valerie Martin, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Téa Obreht, Helen Oyeyemi, Mary-Louise Parker, Victoria Redel, Jason Reynolds, S.J. Rozan, Meredith Talusan, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Jeet Thayil, Paul Theroux, Luis Alberto Urrea, Edmund White This collection hit the bestseller list in Canada on 17/02/2022
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 8, 2021
      Jordan (Mudbound) and Tan (Sarong Party Girls) assemble a literary erotica anthology with a coy twist: individual stories aren’t attributed, allowing readers to guess which of the decorated contributors—including Louise Erdrich, Helen Oyeyemi, and Edmund White—wrote what. The hush-hush conceit is fun, though it may lead readers to expect these 27 stories to be more scandalous than they are; taboos are largely unbroken and too few authors go all in on sexiness. The self-consciously meta “Posseeblay” sees married writers insisting that “nobody ever writes real sex,” as if “boring and awkward and mundane and disappointing” sex weren’t abundant in contemporary fiction. “En Suite” offers a stronger portrayal of clumsy sex, with a drunken kiss between best friends leading to a funny, tender tale, but the oddly retrograde “LVIII Times a Year” tries for a slapstick approach and falls flat. The writers who embrace erotic fantasy fare better: standouts include “History Lesson,” a BDSM story that builds real anticipation in few pages; the steamy fairy tale “Rapunzel, Rapunzel”; and the unabashedly dreamy “Find Me.” Noteworthy is the international scope of the stories’ settings, which gives rise to one of the highlights in the enigmatic, Hong Kong–set “Hard at Play.” Though uneven, there’s plenty to make this worthwhile. Agent: Chris Parris-Lamb, Gernert.

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