Singular Pleasures

Name: Singular Pleasures
Brand: Deep Vellum Publishing
Price: 21.75 AUD
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By: Harry Mathews, Harry Matthews, Francesco Clemente (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 10 April 2000

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Paperback
200 Pages

Edition Type
New edition

Dimensions(cm)
21.4 x 13.9 x 1.0

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Sixty-one vignettes on the sole subject of masturbation record the imaginative varieties of this activity in prose that is playful, intimate, quirky and humane. Illustrated throughout with watercolors by Francesco Clemente that offer an intriguing counterpoint to Mathews's fictions.

Industry Reviews

The singular pleasures of Mathews's (Cigarettes, 1987, etc.) title are in fact only one pleasure, and that one is the - well, the pleasure of masturbation. Here are sixty-odd (publisher's count) tiny pieces, one or two almost a page long, most only a paragraph or just a few lines, describing various people - well, doing it. Those various people are very various, from kids to old fogies, of all sexes, nations, places, needs, and callings, some alone, some with like-minded company. Some of the vignettes are silly, some exotic, some satiric, some erotic, most poetic, some neutral, and some - a few - touchingly lovely. The point seems to be - well, let that be determined by those who choose to ponder it. The illustrations by Francesco Clemente aren't lubricous at all, but (usually) slight, charming, and as ephemeral as a - well, as, say, a falling leaf. (Kirkus Reviews)

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