Quiver

By Tobsha Learner

Book Overview

"Taking in the panoply of sexual desire, each tale shudders with full-frontal detail in a style that is both lyrical and forensically accurate."-- Vogue In twelve interconnected stories as naked and primal as passion itself, Quiver explores the full spectrum of human sexuality in all of its variety and complexity. Spare yet evocative, this explicit collection depicts the pleasures of new and rediscovered love, lust, and obsession. In the flashes that blur the line between fantasy and reality, each story captures the spontaneous erotic experiences of a small group of middle-class acquaintances, showcasing sexual interludes of kaleidoscopic range--heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, exhibitionistic, and sadomasochistic. Each of these stories, alternating between a woman's point of view and a man's, a participant's and a voyeur's, expresses a passion for youth, excitement for the new, and nostalgia for love lost. Sensual and provocative, Quiver introduces a fresh voice to the genre of erotica. For fans of Anne Rice's (A.N. Roquelaure) Sleeping Beauty trilogy or Sylvia Day's Bared to You , Learner's writing will electrify readers with its every impulse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0452279844
• ISBN13: 9780452279841
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Plume
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.8" x 5.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Interesting and erotic.

This is a very well-written collection of very graphic erotica. Not for those uninterested in something of value purely for its prurient interest, nor for those with extremely outre kinks, for those of us with a concept of the erotic vaguely within standard norms -- there's a bit of kink to be found here, but nothing that anyone unbothered by a bit of homoerotica will find truly unsettling -- these stories are excellent for getting the juices flowing. Further, they actually have plots and characterization, and few if any sloppy writing errors, all of which places them far beyond what seems to be the standard in the common run of books that depict graphic sex.

Quality characters, creative sex, quality erotica.

I found this to be an excellent piece of erotic fiction, with characters that had a surprising depth. This is particularly notable considering that this is a collection of short stories. The sex is creative yet vanilla enough to appeal to most (except the homoerotic squemish).My girlfriend and I greatly enjoyed this book and highly reccomend it.

A titillating, idiosyncratic collection of erotic stories.

The stories are a bit more graphic than I was led to believe by the jacket--this is expicit erotica bound in a lovely expensive trade paperback.The raw nature of the depiction of sexual acts is offset (and enhanced) by the subtle storytelling and the spooky character development. These people are living, breathing, flawed individuals with doubts, fears, and very specific turn-ons.As explained on the back cover, the stories are linked...to a degree. Learner brings characters from one story into another, from time to time, in a sort of cameo appearance. These cameos don't seem to affect the stories themselves, nor do the reappearing characters develop any further; it feels like a device, an afterthought. The stories are powerful and affecting enough on their own, though. The characters are so completely *human* that the end result is far more erotic than any porn flick or victorian "anonymously written! " novel.

Not bad

This isn't that bad of a book. There are parts which sometimes seem routine, or things that have been used many times before, but it can make the reader significantly warmer! A good quick read (on the bus, at work, etc)- you can read one story in 10-15 minutes and add a little adventure to your day.