Book description
Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads a double life inspired by
her relentless desire for brief encounters with near-strangers. Fired
into faithlessness by a desperate longing for sexual fulfilment, she
weaves a sensual web of deceit across New York. But when the secrecy of
her affairs becomes too much to bear, Sabina makes a late night
phone-call to a stranger from a bar, and begins a confession that
captivates the unknown man and soon inspires him to seek her out...
Anais Nin (ca. 1903-1977). Her first book - a defence of D. H. Lawrence
- was published in the 1930s. Her prose poem, House of Incest (1936) was
followed by the collection of three novellas, Winter of Artifice (1939).
Her novels, Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross, The
Four-Chambered Heart, A Spy in the House of Love and Seduction of the
Minotaur were first published in the United States between the 1940s and
the 1960s. In the 1940s she began to write erotica for an anonymous
client, and these pieces are collected in Delta of Venus and Little
Birds (both published posthumously).
