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Description
Voluptuous Pleasure: The Truth about the Writing Life is a collection of non-fiction whose title states that non-fiction does not exist. These stories, by acclaimed author Marianne Apostolides, are sensuous and smart, ambiguous but incisive in their truths. Voluptuous Pleasure will take you inside brothels and bedrooms, kitchens and consciousness; it will seduce you along the limits of non-fiction, making you question the veracity of anything you’ve ever read – or even experienced.
Awards
- , A Globe & Mail Top 100 book of 2012
Editorial Review
"Voluptuous Pleasure opens a window onto Marianne Apostolides’ house of unruly memories. These stories – memory-events that unfold through unflinching honesty – reveal that truth lies in the act of telling and – yes – the haunting pleasure of sharing it."
– Smaro Kamboureli, Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Canadian Literature, University of Guelph
In vivid language, Voluptuous Pleasure examines tensions between the exploration of personal memories and the construction of engaging narratives.
– Quill & Quire
Apostolides is a kind of fan dancer among thematic imponderables: the realms of memory, longing, fear, loss, redemption and, of course, the two sullen enormities between which all literary tensions must eventually find both flight and denouement, injustice and survival.
– The Globe & Mail
"Apostolides' impassioned little book cranes its pliant neck to peer directly up the birth canal into the briny recesses where stories and writing are conceived"
– Charles Wilkins, via The Globe and Mail
