Belinda

By Anne Rice and Anne Rampling

Book Overview

From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of the Sleeping Beauty trilogy comes an erotic, carnal tale of obsession Handsome and famous, forty-four-year-old children s book illustrator Jeremy Walker has all of life s pleasures at his fingertips. But he s about to be tempted by the ultimate forbidden fantasy... Belinda is bewitching. She is beguiling. And at sixteen she is the most seductive woman he has ever seen. As he captures her beauty on canvas, Jeremy falls completely under Belinda s sensual spell. But behind the lure of her golden hair lies a dangerous secret one that could destroy them both "

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425176657
• ISBN13: 9780425176658
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Very Sexy........

The cover of ''Belinda'' looked like a cheap, housewife-approved Harlequin romance novel until I read the first chapter and realized it was a bit too sophisticated. The location, wording, pace and tone didn't have the usual romance-novel feel to it. Thus......... I loved this book. It's not as sexually graphic as the other Rice novels, but that's the beauty. Narrator and character Jeremy Walker's obsession with Belinda is disturbing and sexy. He describes her physical attributes and mannerisms in very good detail that can make the story a bit slow at times, but it doesn't totally kill it. Jeremy is a middle-aged, twice divorced, sexually repressed man in love with an uninhibited 16-year-old girl. She enters his life at a time when his creativity is numb and he is bored with his dull existence. She frees him sexually and creatively. It's not a kinky book nor is it sexually perverse. The beauty is in his intense obsession with her. His fondness for her immaturity, sophisticated tastes and shortcomings is a love story onto itself. Rice re-creates ''Lolita'' with a twist. Except Jeremy's character is handsome and Belinda is a runaway. The San Francisco and New Orleans locations and Catholic undertones are what make the novel a story of substance. There are moments when I think the book is an eerie resemblance of Louis Malle's movie ''Pretty Baby'' which featured a naked 12-year-old Brooke Shields.