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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bedby Melissa P
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The best-selling erotic novel by a Sicilian teenager about a young girl's search for love in a pornographic world — "a scandal a' la Catherine M." (L'Espresso, Italy)
An instant blockbuster in Italy where it has sold over 700,000 copies, and now an international literary phenomenon, 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager whose quest for love rapidly devolves into a shocking journey of sexual discovery. Melissa begins her diary a virgin, but a stormy affair at the age of fourteen leads her to regard sex as a means of self-discovery, and for the next two years she plunges into a succession of encounters with various partners, male and female, her age and much older, some met through schoolmates, others through newspaper ads and Internet chat rooms. In graphic detail she describes her entry into a Dante-esque underworld of eroticism, where she willingly participates in group sex and sadomasochism, as well as casual pickups. Melissa's secret life is concealed from family and friends, revealed only in her diary entries. Told with disarming candor, Melissa P.'s bittersweet tour of extreme desires is as poignant as it is titillating. 100 Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed is a stunning erotic debut, a Story of O for our times. Review:"A scandalous bestseller in her native Italy, Melissa P.'s avowedly autobiographical novel recounts a Sicilian schoolgirl's erotic adventures. 'I want love, Diary,' she writes just before her 15th birthday. 'I want to feel my heart melt, want to see my icy stalactites shatter and plunge into a river of passion and beauty.' Love may be hard to find, but sex waits at every turn, and Melissa seldom says no. In calmly vivid prose, she describes the varieties of experience, beginning with her introduction to oral sex: 'I now had it before my eyes, it smelled male, and every vein that crossed it expressed such power that I felt duty-bound to reckon with it.' This same sense of duty mandates sex with a woman, sex with an older man, sadomasochistic sex, group sex. Although her mother tells an ill Melissa a fable about a princess, Melissa tells herself no fairy tales — and therein lies the odd, potent purity of these pages. Agent, Anna Stein at Donadio & Olsen. (Oct.) Forecast: When the author turned 18, she revealed her family name of Panarello. But Melissa P. she is here (think The Sexual Life of Catherine M). Readers who recall the impact of 18-year-old Franoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse may prefer to shelve her with that other prodigy. " Publishers Weekly (Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"[A] remarkable two-year sexual odyssey....A junior-league Catherine M. bound to raise just as many eyebrows on this side of the Atlantic. One can only imagine where the author's literary career will take her next." Kirkus Reviews Review:"The erotic adventures of a sexually ravenous girl....A wisp of a book that has had a wallop of an impact...readers have simply devoured it." The New York Times Review:"The narrator brings an emotional authority to her work, letting the reader momentarily forget her age and simply relate to her often turbulent journey....100 Strokes is by turns romantic, erotic, sensationalistic, and disturbing." Rachel Kramer Bussel, Bust Review:"Remarkably self-assured...the shock waves of this self-revealing schoolgirl's confession...are still reverberating." The Times (London) Review:"[Melissa's story] is conveyed with cold, almost hypnotic sadness, rendered with language much more elegant and precise than one would ever expect from a mere teenager." Corriere della Sera (Italy) Review:"Catherine M. can go put her clothes back on....Melissa's diary in which this schoolgirl from Catania narrates her erotic experience is outselling Harry Potter." Les Echos (France) Synopsis:An instant blockbuster in Italy where it has sold over 700,000 copies, and now an international literary phenomenon, "100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed" is the fictionalized memoir of Melissa P., a Sicilian teenager whose quest for love rapidly devolves into a shocking journey of sexual discovery. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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