A combined love story and philosophical meditation on the body as a physical phenomenon thrusts the reader into the life of a married woman and her erotic relationship with an unidentified lover who narrates the story The narrator chronicles his or her (the identity is unknown) consuming affair with a married woman, revealing a love stripped of cliche+a7s and categories. By the author of Sexing the Cherry. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.--New York Times Book Review.
