But the form Anna’s new passion takes is far from cliché or fantastic. This would seem to be a familiar storyline: frigid female set free by confident, sexy hunk. In The Good Mother by Sue Miller, a recently divorced woman meets a man who awakens her sexual longing for the first time. Rather than inviting you to gape at purely physical contortions, these scenes make the reader feel the acts described as bodily, emotional experiences that inform each character’s unique sense of what it means to be alive. What follows is a collection of credible, affecting sex scenes by writers who are celebrated not for their illicit content, but for their uncommonly precise prose and insightful observations of human nature. Rather, many great novels portray sexual encounters as an inseparable part of the extraordinary ordinariness of daily life. But often the best writing about sex can be found in books that are not about sex at all. When most of us think of writing about sex, our minds turn to classic authors of explicit fornication (The Marquis de Sade, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Erica Jong) or to contemporary erotic bestsellers ( Fifty Shades of Grey, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., Wetlands).
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