Germaine Shames

Wars of the Flesh (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Five wayward love stories.

What is it we seek in another's fleshwholeness, transcendence, possession, escape? Can we trust the body's primal intelligence or is lust the fatal trap depicted in classic operas and Victorian novels?

In "Rescue Mission" a divorced middle-aged man journeys to a desolate outpost in Africa to win back a childhood sweetheart more interested in apes than in men

"Wars of the Flesh" follows the misadventures of a rebellious Swiss teenager who elopes with a penniless artist and follows him back to his devastated homeland in the wake of the Spanish Civil War.

"Counter-Indications of Trance on the Male Libido" invites the reader to eavesdrop on a hypnotherapy session turned seduction.

"The Guru's Mistress" lays bare the curious morality of a woman-child whose obsessive love for a guru endures celebrity, betrayal, and marriage to another man.

In "The Open Green Mouth" a woman desperate to conceive a child accompanies her hunter husband to guerilla-occupied Putumayo, where the laws of the jungle conspire to fulfill her desire.

We may love imperfectly, we may love blindly, but love we must.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 55
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780983861263
• Artikelnr.: 45441487

Autorenporträt

Germaine Shames, has written from six continents--soon to add the seventh--on topics ranging from the Middle East crisis to Aboriginal land rights, from the struggle to save the Amazon to the plight of street children.

Shames is author of the critically-acclaimed novel Between Two Deserts (Macadam/Cage Publishing), two earlier nonfiction books, two musical stage plays, and three feature screenplays.

Her recently released novel, YOU, FASCINATING YOU, the hidden story behind a timeless love song, has been named "Editor's Choice" by the Historical Novel Society.

Writing under the pen name Casper Silk (Hotel Noir, Echo Year) she has been called "cagey and poetic" and compared to such luminaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene and P.D. James "on steroids."

Her articles have appeared in such publications as National Geographic Traveler, More, Success, Hemispheres, Byline and many others. Her essays and short fiction have been widely anthologized.

Shames holds a masters degree in Intercultural Studies. As a global executive, and later as a foreign correspondent, she has lived and worked in such diverse locations as the Australian outback, Swiss Alps, interior of Bulgaria, coast of Colombia, Fiji Islands, and Gaza Strip. She brings a tender acuity to her journalism and has made a mission of covering under-reported stories of grassroots activism and everyday heroism. Her fiction writing reflects the breadth of her worldview and fascination with the interplay of cultures, often drawing on events and settings from her sojourns abroad.

Praise for You, Fascinating You:

"Flawless." Historical Novel Society, Editor's Choice

"A love story reminiscent of that of my grandparents. I could not put it down." Kinga Nijinsky Gaspers

"Germaine paints a vivid and accurate portrait of the world of ballet in pre and post war Europe. The epic drama expected on the ballet stage is dwarfed by the tragic real life events of her ballerina heroine, Margit Wolf. Penetrating descriptions of political brutality and the prepossession of romantic love, an ever present theme in classical ballet, make for a page-turning, impelling read." Janet Panetta, ballet master Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch

"Germaine Shames' beautiful depiction of the life of Margit Wolf and Pasquale Frustaci is told with such vivid and haunting detail, it's as if the reader is propelled back in time to witness a de...