Description
Description
In unapologetic, sensuous prose, Catherine Texier's After David explores the languishing sex life of Eve, a writer in her early sixties who is the divorced mother of two grown daughters. Ignoring the concerns of friends and family, Eve satisfies her urges by having casual sex with the younger men she meets through online dating. But she can't fully shake the Catholic guilt over her relentless seductiveness, that is, until she begins a revitalizing affair with Jonah, a thirty-something jazz guitarist who gives her a new lease on life and tempts her to leave behind the complicated memories of a failed marriage.
This erotic yet poignant literary work dares to venture into the aftermath of one woman's divorce and the passionate lopsided love affair that follows it. Reminiscent of Colette's Chéri, Catherine Texier's After David vividly captures a portrait of the fearlessly aging contemporary woman.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Both sexy and cerebral, After David is a novel in which an accomplished woman in a new life phase toys with the promise and perils of desire." -FOREWORD REVIEWS
"In After David, Texier thoughtfully, tenderly and with unrestrained eroticism, captures the complexity of modern love and loss." -ELIZABETH CRANE, Author of This Story Will Change
PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR'S WORK:
"Somewhere between a Henry Miller fantasy and a William Burroughs nightmare..." -VANITY FAIR
"Texier knows not to analyze or explain or blame; such things can only be understood by feeling..." -MARY GAITSKILL
"Both fascinating and frightening in its eroticism." -AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW
"Texier writes in such a way as to allow us to experience the struggle for love and the uselessness of living without it." -HUBERT SELBY JR.
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