Synopses & Reviews
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A Four-Sided Bed is an erotically charged dance with multiple partners. Her characters reinvent their lives so successfully that they are haunted by the ghosts of their former selves, and the reader is haunted by the desperate beauty of their desire. Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion, and wit. She's one of the best young writers around."--Robert Boswell
"Elizabeth Searle writes like a poet, evoking her people with haunting intimacy and graceful lyricism. She lives not only with them, but inside of them, as if she is the soul in each of their bodies, as if she herself is that secret place where the most dangerous desires erupt."--Melanie Rae Thon
"A Four-Sided Bed is a riveting study in human passions, desires, and needs. Eerily evocative, we are pulled into the lives of four very different individuals and the ties that connect them. During the course of the novel it is as if we wake from a dream, shaking off the easiest explanations of sex, marriage and procreation to discover something much more primitive and solid."--Jill McCorkle
Synopsis
"Elizabeth Searle writes like a poet, evoking her people with haunting intimacy and graceful lyricism. She lives not only with them, but inside of them, as if she is the soul in each of their bodies, as if she herself is that secret place where the most dangerous desires erupt". -- Melanie Rae Thon
Allie moves from shock to understanding as she uncovers the truth about her husband J.J.'s past. A Four Sided Bed explores the sexual boundaries of love through a relationship with multiple partners. Searle's ability to capture the gritty emotional realities of her characters gives this debut novel a highly distinctive voice.
Synopsis
The characters in this bold and compassionate novel by Elizabeth Searle find themselves in uncharted territory as they explore what is possible within the sexual boundaries of friendship, love, and identity. As the
Los Angeles Times has said previously about Elizabeth Searle, she sets out to "test the limits of the sensible, the approved, even the sexually possible." With this debut novel she creates a sexy, four-sided love story unique to our times in which gender is constantly redefined.
About the Author
Elizabeth Searle is the author of
My Body to You, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize. She teaches in the graduate writing program at Emerson College in Boston.