Too Beautiful and Other Stories

by Mark Pritchard

Erotic short stories by an outstanding writer whose work has been singled out for distinction by the Erotica Readers Association, Good Vibrations and the editors of the highly successful Mammoth Book... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573441384
• ISBN13: 9781573441384
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

a voyeur's delite

Reading this book brings gut reactions - titillation, shock, excitment. The author'selegant, spare prose makes the characters vividly alive andbelievable. Each story is different, it's like walkinginto various rooms in a building where each room holdsa naughty surprise. Each story leaves one thinking "and what next???". You won't be disappointed.

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I finished reading Too Beautiful yesterday, and I can only amplify my initial praise for this smart, sexed up, totally wrong book. Delicious. Transgressive. Hot. Pritchard's stories never settle into either of the predominant camps of dirty books, on the one hand "Letters to Penthouse" frat-boy fantasies, or the limp erotica of the "gossamer-and-moonbeams" school on the other. (Though Pritchard evidently started out writing youthful imitations of the latter variety, including a story involving blueberries, described with charming self-deprecation in the Afterword.) Favorite stories are "Pretend," an extended D/s fantasy, "Too Beautiful," in which an aggressive narrator finds himself subtly dominated (and loving it!) and "Lizza," a feverish, hallucinatory chronicle of incestuous siblings whose appetites for transgression lead them from ferocious copulation to a violent crime spree. The collection isn't just porn, though -- the stories stand up (beautifully) to comparisons with more straight-laced contemporary short prose fiction. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad. Sometimes both at once. And always filthy.