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    A Handbook For My Lover

    By Rosalyn D'Mello

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    'How do I arrive at my truth? How many layers must I undo until you can finally touch my core? Where must I begin?

    Perhaps the truth lies scattered across these pages, coded between words. You must discover it for yourself.

    Because interspersed with my truth is your truth.

    This striptease isn't complete until I strip you too.'

     
    I wish I had never met you. You've been nothing but an inconvenience. Guised as an instructive manual, A Handbook For My Lover chronicles six years in the life of an unconventional affair between a young writer and her older lover, a photographer. This sensuous epistle documents the woman's demands and desires, her fantasies and eccentricities as she negotiates the minefield that is their relationship in the absence of any destination. A Handbook For My Lover is an erotic memoir that revels in the ephemeral pleasures of everyday moments. Feisty and provocative, it is an examination of the shifting equations of power and vulnerability within the intimacies of love and lovemaking.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateDec 10, 2015
    ISBN9789351776413
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    A Handbook For My Lover
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    Rosalyn D'Mello

    Rosalyn D'Mello is a widely published Delhi-based freelance art writer and researcher. She was the ex-editor-in-chief of Blouin Artinfo India and the associate editor of The Art Critic, a selected collection of Richard Bartholomew's art writing from the 1950s to the 1980s. This is her first book.

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