Trysting

By Emmanuelle Pagano

"It's as though you had to know the password for our relationship . . ."

What is love? Why do some people make our hearts flutter, while others leave us cold? A seductive blend of Maggie Nelson and Marguerite Duras, Trysting seizes romance's slippery truths by letting us glimpse nearly 300 beguiling relationships: scenes between all genders and sexualities, including first dates, infidelities, dependencies, missed connections, bitter memories, and first passions. Proving that the erotic knows no bounds, almost anything can be a means of attraction: from amnesia and throat-clearing to sign language, earplugs, back hair, arthritis, PVC, and showers. Combining aphorisms, anecdotes, and adventures, Trysting is a tour de force that gives a new perspective on a question as old as humanity.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931883564
• ISBN13: 9781931883566
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Two Lines Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

It will leave you breathless at times

This book is comprised of micro stories that vary from a single sentence to about a page and a half. The stories are funny, bittersweet, sad - just like love itself. For an old dog such as myself it made me think back to many of my prior relationships and wonder. I can barely wait to see what other works of this author appear in translation in the future. There is almost no way that you can read this book and not see some facet of your own personality potrayed mercilessly on the page.