Tetrarch

by Alex Comfort

Book Overview

Text is very good with mild shelf/edge wear, deckle edge. Tan boards with burgandy spine. DJ is good and has normal shelf/edge wear including a chip from front, scratches and small tears to edges and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394510844
• ISBN13: 9780394510842
• Release Date: May 1980
• Publisher: Shambhala Publications
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fantasy novel by author of _Joy of Sex_

Alex Comfort wrote the bestselling and oft-reprinted sex manual _The Joy of Sex_. He also tried his hand at fantasy fiction. Naturally, there are undertones of sensuality throughout this New Wave-esque story. But it is not pornographic. This book may be of interest to collectors of the quirky. From the bookflap: "Edward and Rosanna buy an antique door for their apartment, having no idea that they have purchased their passageway to another world. But when they step through the doorway, they find themselves in a place at right angles to real time, where the conventional greeting is 'have you loved well?'; where the army is a vehicle for play therapy and the real weapons are powered mandalas; where the most precious treasure is a crystal the size of a grain of sand ....He is a colonel in the Losian army, and she, a slave girl, in a place where people are only owned if they choose to be...."

A modern day Gullivers Travels.

Alex Comfort uses a fantasy situation to take to task many of what he views to be socital ills and inconsistancies. Much of what he deals with presupposes that Pope (Paradise Lost) and Dante (The Inferno) knew what they were talking about. Moreover, the relationship between the heroine and hero is closely analysed. Strong sexual content.