Finished Sa 3/16/13
My post on Good Reads-
This is a deliciously dark(very dark!)faux-autobiography of a NYC writer in his sixties (Nick Tosches) who finds that sex with young women can become a supernaturally salubrious experience if he can sip on their blood. The sex is consensual, and the book is not an attempt to present a new slant on vampirism, yet it is more accurately a vivid and intriguing portrait of a man facing his mortality while simultaneously experiencing inexplicable youthful or godlike powers.
The book is set in the hippest areas of Manhattan, and offers a wide range of colorful characters, yet the reader never knows exactly what is real and what is not, and the tone of the book presents an intricate dance between sobriety and intoxication, or insanity and inspiration. What happens in the novel is clearly secondary to the pensive nature of the exploration. MUST READ.
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