num_pages: 140
description: A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression, on the one hand, and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, on the other, echoes Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation. Written when Nin's own life was taut with conflicting loyalties, her protagonist Sabina repeatedly asks herself, can one indulge one's sensual restlessness, the fantasies, the relentless need for adventure without devastating consequences?
language: English
title: A Spy in the House of Love
titlecomplete: A Spy in the House of Love
genres: Fiction, French Literature, Classics, France, Modern Classics, Erotica, Literary Fiction, Romance, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 7367
places: New York City, New York
series: Cities of the Interior
publisher: Swallow Press