The ages of Lulu
By: Almudena Grandes ; translated from the Spanish by Sonia Soto.
Contributors: Soto, Sonia.
Edition: 1st Seven Stories Press ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781583226889
Subjects: Pornography -- Fiction; Spain -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Long before "The Sexual Life of Catherine M", Grandes was dazzling the literary world with this highly charged novel about a young woman embarking on a series of sexual adventures. Lulu's journey begins with the night she loses her virginity to Pablo - her brother's best friend and twelve years her senior. Their relationship is obsessive - not possessive - and their appetites for new erotic territory are insatiable. Lulu's thirst for sexual discovery takes her through voyeurism, power plays and homoeroticism. But soon her forays into illicit and dangerous sex threaten to absorb her completely...