The Bride Stripped Bare

by Nikki Gemmell | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0060735163 Global Overview for this book
Registered by catsalive of Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on 8/4/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, August 4, 2007
From Publishers Weekly
A series of diary entries charts the sinuous paths of marriage and sexual desire in this artful book, a bestseller in the U.K. The author of the entries, a nameless 30-something housewife, has disappeared, leaving behind what amounts to 138 "lessons," written in the second-person, for her fellow archetypal "good wives." At first, the gimmick is jarring, but as the protagonist's personality emerges and flowers, readers will be seduced by this sometimes subtle, sometimes overwrought novel set in modern-day London. At first, marriage equals safety to the woman ("it's a relief, to be honest, this surrendering..."), but the sex is humdrum, and Cole, her husband, is remote and fastidious—only oral sex offers a surefire way to orgasm and sometimes he'd just rather watch TV. To make matters worse, he may have engaged in an affair with her best childhood friend. Beginning work on her long-planned book might cheer her up—and so will an affair with lovely Gabriel, of the "cathedral-wide" chest and silky young skin. Thus she commences erotic adventures previously unimaginable. She also becomes pregnant, and the anonymous author is cannily perceptive about the vicissitudes of pregnancy and new motherhood; she writes strikingly of the surprising erotic passion, emotional upheaval and anger that can flare during pregnancy. This unusual but strangely compelling novel offers an intimate chronicle of change and self-discovery, of a woman who makes a final and unexpected choice.

Journal Entry 2 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Saturday, August 4, 2007
Well, I can''t see what all the fuss was about but I''m glad I''ve read it. It''s an easy read as the ''lessons'' are short and the language easy to follow.

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Journal Entry 4 by nikkilovesbooks from Secret Harbour, Western Australia Australia on Monday, October 1, 2007
I received this book from catsalive a few weeks ago. Thanks for sending it up to me. I have read the book before, as a borrowed library book, and I really enjoyed it. I will pop it into my permanent collect until I get to read it again, then get around to forwarding it on to other booklovers.

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