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by: Guillaume Apollinaire See Larger Image List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $14.96 You Save: $4.99 (25%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9781596540606 ISBN: 1596540605 Label: Olympiapress.com Manufacturer: Olympiapress.com Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 56 Publication Date: August 28, 2004 Publisher: Olympiapress.com Sales Rank: 219959 Studio: Olympiapress.com Related Items: Midnight Intimacies The Stepdaughters My Mother Taught Me My Sister, My Sin The Romance of Lust see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Apollinaire's account of a 15-year-old budding libertine's summer on the farm, where he congresses with maids, servants, passersby, an aunt and finally a sister, while outside the manor peasants go for creatures of the four-legged variety, is a classic unparalleled in its content, brevity and wit. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Fast Moving but ultimately empty This is a story of a young man who has NEVER experienced physical intimacy with women and is now going to make up for "lost time". The action is rapid. The physical activity is well-described. However, the women are -- essentially -- so shallow as to be "puppets". Every woman described "gives in" to our hero with only the faintest of protests. Even his sister who has a boy friend / fiance gets "moving right along". The closest that we see to a "build-up" and some level of protest ... Read More Rating: - A sexual awakening story of young Roger ... Young Roger is taken to the French countryside chateaux by his mother, aunt and sister for a Summer at the age of 15 and discovers that there is more to life than playing hide and go seek. Starting with the fact Roger used to take baths with his sister till he was about 14 and she was 15 while the 27 virginal Aunt took special care to make sure they bathed and dried themselves properly, there was very little in the way of male company to teach our budding libertine that it's good to look ... Read More Rating: - A Lighthearted Romp This book tells of the sexual awakening of a young man named Roger, and how he goes about slaking his burning lust (with the maids, his aunt, his sisters...). So in other words, no real plot here. The first half of the book is a tease where we read about the things that ignite young Roger's passion. The second half has Roger seeing non-stop action. Lot's of good, dirty, fun...

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