Community of Women (Collection of Classic Erotica) (Volume 8)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (684 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1533699046 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The Housewives of Cheshire Point" according to Carolyn Paetow. This NYC exurb may appear to be a staid, Beaver-Cleaver, fifties-era village where dutiful spouses deliver their city-bound hubbies to commuter trains in the morning and attend PTA meetings in the evening. But there are also wild weekend parties, afternoon trysts, and hotel hookups. The story examines pivotal events in the lives of several couples, including a closeted pair engaged in a show marriage.Published in 1961, the book is an interesting example of the erotica of the time.. Michael Hemmingson said A fun read!. The terse novel, told in "A fun read!" according to Michael Hemmingson. The terse novel, told in 22 short chapters, is one of Block's multi-character soap operas, like the many Andrew Shaws Block did for Nightstand Books that take that form, a form Block still employs now and then, most recently with his 9/11 mainstream novel, Small Town. (I tend to prefer Block keeping to one POV, usually first-person.) The caharcters here are residents of suburba, Cheshire Point, a commuter train's ride outside Manhattan where many of the men work and their wives stay at home and have their own secret lives, such as Mag. "A fun read!" according to Michael Hemmingson. The terse novel, told in 22 short chapters, is one of Block's multi-character soap operas, like the many Andrew Shaws Block did for Nightstand Books that take that form, a form Block still employs now and then, most recently with his 9/11 mainstream novel, Small Town. (I tend to prefer Block keeping to one POV, usually first-person.) The caharcters here are residents of suburba, Cheshire Point, a commuter train's ride outside Manhattan where many of the men work and their wives stay at home and have their own secret lives, such as Mag. short chapters, is one of Block's multi-character soap operas, like the many Andrew Shaws Block did for Nightstand Books that take that form, a form Block still employs now and then, most recently with his 9/11 mainstream novel, Small Town. (I tend to prefer Block keeping to one POV, usually first-person.) The caharcters here are residents of suburba, Cheshire Point, a commuter train's ride outside Manhattan where many of the men work and their wives stay at home and have their own secret lives, such as Mag. An early Block novel. Fluff with a few brights spots in the prose. Think of it as a 1961 version of Desperate Housewives. Community of Women is set in Cheshire Point, a suburb of New York populated mostly by Madison Avenue types who take the commuter train to Grand Central Station every morning, leaving their lonely oversexed wives behind. Think of it as a 1961 version of Desperate Housewives.It’s not Block’s best work… actually, it’s really quite bad on every level. It is not an early emerging crime novel like Candy and Cinderella Sims. Nor does it foreshadow important elements of Block’s later books like A Strange Kind of
Well, it was an okay premise. Which would make it a hotbed of, um, hot stuff. And so I’ve spared you a summary of COMMUNITY OF WOMEN, and gotten off the hook instead by taking this little trip down Memory Lane. And young Mr. Duh. And then, when they wanted still more and I had neither time nor inclination to write them, my agent suggested we find writers to ghost the books under Sheldon Lord’s name; I’d receive a fee off the top for my involvement, with the balance to go to the actual writers. Sheldon Lord began his career with CARLA (#5 in the Collection of Classic Erotica),published by Harry Shorten’s Midwood Books in 1958. Same with Beacon and COMMUNITY OF WOMEN. Lord’s first book for yet a third publisher, Beacon, was APRIL NORTH (CCL #4). About a year earlier I was living on West 69th Street when the same agent told me that Monarch Books had an unfinished novel, the first chapters and outline of which
His newest book, pitched by his Hollywood agent as “James M. He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note. Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. Several of his other books have also been filmed, although not terribly well. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Pro
His newest book, pitched by his Hollywood agent as “James M. . In addition to prose works, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) and the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights. He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note. About the Author Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. Several of his other books have also been filmed, although not terribly well. Cain on Viagra,” is The Girl with the