Title: Plateforme
First published: November 2002
Description: "Michel Renault is a human void. Following the death of the father he barely knew, he endures his civil service job while eking out an existence of prepackaged pleasure, hollow friendships, TV dinners, and pornography. On a group holiday in Thailand, however, he meets the shyly compelling Valerie, who soon pursues an agenda that Michel himself could never have thought possible: his own humanization." "Back in Paris, they plunge into an affair that strays into S&M, public sex, and partner swapping, even as they devise a scheme to save Valerie's ailing travel company by capitalizing on the only trade Michel has seen flourish in the third World. Before long, he quits his job, and their business model for "sex tourism" is gradually implemented. But when they return to Thailand, where Michel's philosophy will be put into practice, he discovers that sex is neither the most consuming nor dangerous of passions."--BOOK JACKET
Subjects: Liebesfa higkeit, Belletristische Darstellung, Ferienzentrum, Liebesfähigkeit, Social life and customs, Sex tourism, Fiction, Social conditions, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, erotica, general, Paris (france), fiction, Thailand, fiction, Package tours, Fiction, erotica, Romance literature
Places: Thailand, France
Time periods: 20th century, 1986-, 1986
LC classification: PQ2668.O77 P5313 2003