num_pages: 225
description: Lust, Desire, Fantasy, Obsession, LoveIn one outstanding volume, ten of today's finest authors of adult and young-adult literature lend teir talent and their vioces to take a hard, clear look at love and sexuality. From balancing abstinence and desire, to learning the difference between love and lust, to fulfilling a childhood obsession, each of these stories depicts characters exploring a world of new feelings and sensations that is opening up before them. At times magical, funny, sad, and angry -- but always heartbraakingly honest -- these stories reveal the pressures and complications -- and sometimes joy -- of love and sex.Laurie Halse Anderson "Snake"Joan Bauer "Extra Virgin"Emma Donoghue "The Welcome"Louise Hawes "Fine and Dandy"Angela Johnson "Watcher"Michael Lowenthal "The Acuteness of Desire"Chris Lynch "The Cure of Curtis"GarhtNix "Lightning Bringer"Sonya Sones "Secret Shelf"Shelley Steohr "Troll Bumps"
language: English
title: Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth
titlecomplete: Love & Sex: Ten Stories of Truth
genres: Sexuality, Young Adult, Teen, LGBT, High School, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Romance
ratings_count: 169
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Rhode Island Teen Book Award
publisher: S&S Books for Young Readers