The sensational erotic memoir that shocked the world, now re-issued as a Serpent's Tail Classic.
Catherine Millet is the editor of Art Press, an influential Paris art magazine. She has written books on moden art, including a monograph on the painter Yves Klein.
Elegantly written and extraordinarily frank. Here is a book so rich
in sexual revelation that it could feed five tabloids for a year
and still have something left for Channel 5
*Independent on Sunday*
Millet is the new icon of highbrow pornography
*Guardian*
The author writes like a connoisseur who is perfectly at ease with
her subject... A brilliant testimony of a life spent at the sexual
front line
*Independent on Sunday*
This is the most explicit book about sex ever written by a woman,
though it is far from pornographic. Catherine Millet sets about
coolly and rationally exploring her insatiable appetites - and she
has lived to tell the tale that is the opposite of lurid. It is a
comprehensive and elegant performance
*Edmund White*
I don't approve of The Sexual Life of Catherine M. But I am
grateful she has written it
*The Times*
She proves again that Catholicism and filthy sex go together like
salt beef and rye
*Independent on Sunday*
Readers may find this book disturbing or repellent, but they are
unlikely to find it dull. I thought that it was the most honest
book I had ever read on the subject of sex
*Daily Telegraph*
Her fans are now citing her as a feminist sexual crusader
*Observer*
Millet's achievement is that she curates or, more accurately,
catalogues her sexual adventures with no sense of shame or
remorse
*Independent*
Is this the most original novel of the year?
*Guardian*
You are amazed at her honesty as you are by her exploits. Some of
what she does and says mirror your own thoughts and fantasies
*Daily Express*
It is Millet's subversive achievement to describe pleasure for its
own sake
*New Statesman*
This bestseller shocked Europe and looks set to become
controversial here
*Daily Mirror*
Her descriptions are laced with a laconic frankness which veers
between intelligent reflection and willed self-objectification
*Economist*
Millet diverts the tradition of erotic writing by French women such
as Pauline Reage and Alina Reyes firmly into the realm of
non-fiction, with this account of her sexual encounters, tastes and
unconventional morality... Millet writes extremely well, describing
her recollections vividly, and investing her physical largesse with
a queenly magnanimity... Millet's sexual aesthetic is a literary
one, invoking Sade, Reage and Proust... a work of libertine
philosophy'
*Times Literary Supplement*
Millet's implicit mission is to write about her own desire with
absolute candour and a fierce refusal to consider her audience's
needs or sensibilities
*Literary Review*
Explicit and honest
*Dazed & Confused*
Pornography must have been a challenge, but Catherine M has risen
to it in a way that will have Descartes encoring from Beyond...
Catherine M writes with the enthusiasm of one who invented
multiple-partner sex even though she no longer practises the
intercourse that she writes about... Genuine free-love requires a
level of trust and honesty few of us are prepared to bring into our
dealings with others. Catherine M. might be said to be a genuine
innocent
*Sunday Herald*
The unabashed erotica of The Sexual Life of Catherine M... salutes
the Marquis de Sade in a straight-talking romp through dozens of
one-night stands catalogued with savage wit by a Parisian
intellecual
*Scotsman*
She has recorded her numerous sexual encounters in disarming detail
and an alluring style of cool detachment... They make for
extraordinarily compulsive reading. Some may think her honesty
gratuitous, others will identify with it and find it inspiring
*Good Book Guide*
The investigation of one's woman sexuality is still, by its nature,
unique
*Uncut*
For those unfamiliar with the female body, it's also
illuminating!
*Gay Times*
An aloof, gracefully crystilline style as elegant as any French
pornography since Sade
*Vogue USA*
Graceful, thoughful, oddly charming, and profoundly pornographic. A
bold, intelligent, pioneering tour de force
*Kirkus Reviews*
The porn most likely to be read by those who wouldn't be seen dead
clutching a sweaty copy of Fiesta is The Sexual Life of Catherine
M. ... Fine observations and precise prose style... She fits neatly
into a category of literary outrage
*Tina Jackson*
An ideal languorous holiday read
*Diva*
Do not read this unless you have a wildly satisfying sex life
*Sleazenation*
Highly literary, and beautifully, reverently, precisely
descriptive
*Ham & High*
Millet's unashamed approach to sex is certainly refreshing and
admirable
*Sunday Tribune*
By reclaiming sexual morality as a highly personal matter outside
any kind of political control Millet lets sex take revenge on
politics
*Weekend Australian*
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