Editions for Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses: (Paperback published in 1999), (Paperback published in 2010), (Mass Market Paperbac. John Updike once said that there are three great mysteries in life: sex, art, and religion. Isabel Allende has added food to that mysterious mix in a delightful way - food is sexy and erotic and enticing in her book and is explored in a way that reminds one of lacy lingerie, seductive but mysterious at the same time. Isabel Allende tastes the pleasures of feast and flesh. By Victor Perera ISABEL ALLENDE describes her newest work, Aphrodite, as a celebration of the senses-the palate above all-after the rigors of her last book, Paula.In that extraordinary memoir, Allende bore witness to the passage of her grown daughter, who was afflicted with a rare hereditary disease, from a deepening coma to a slow.
Novelist Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna) cannot separate eroticism from food.She calls this beautifully designed book 'a mapless journey through the regions of sensual memory, in which the boundaries between love and appetite are so diffuse that at times they evaporate completely.'
Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende
- Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses
- Isabel Allende
- Page: 320
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9780060930172
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Under the aegis of the Goddess of Love, Isabel Allende uses her storytelling skills brilliantly in Aphrodite to evoke the delights of food and sex. After considerable research and study, she has become an authority on aphrodisiacs, which include everything from food and drink to stories and, of course, love. Readers will find here recipes from Allende's mother, poems, stories from ancient and foreign literatures, paintings, personal anecdotes, fascinating tidbits on the sensual art of food and its effects on amorous performance, tips on how to attract your mate and revive flagging virility, passages on the effect of smell on libido, a history of ...
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Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. [Excerpt]. Young Adult Fiction. Kingdom of the Golden Vikki Fraser & John Gunders
Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses. Sydney: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 1998. Probyn, Elspeth. 'Beyond Food/Sex: Eating and an Ethics of Existence.' Theory Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo
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Born in Peru, Isabel Allende was raised in Chile. She is the author of the novels Portrait in Sepia, Daughter of Fortune, The Infinite Plan, Eva Luna, Of Love and Shadows, and The House of the Spirits, the short story collection The Stories of Eva Luna, the memoir Paula, and Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses. City of the Beast is her first novel for young readers. She lives in California.
Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Historical, Literary Fiction, Mystery
1. Daughter of Fortune (1998)
2. Portrait in Sepia (2001)
1. City of the Beasts (2002)
2. Kingdom of the Golden Dragon (2004)
3. Forest of the Pygmies (2005)
Of Love and Shadows (1984)
Eva Luna (1988)
The Infinite Plan (1993)
Zorro (2005)
Ines of My Soul (2006)
Island Beneath the Sea (2010)
Maya's Notebook (2013)
Ripper (2014)
The Japanese Lover (2015)
In the Midst of Winter (2017)
A Long Petal of the Sea (2020)
The Soul of a Woman (2021)
Giving Birth, Finding Form (1993) (with Jean Shinoda Bolen and Alice Walker)
Aphrodite (1998)
These Are Not Sweet Girls (poems) (2016)
Paula (1995)
Conversations with Isabel Allende (1999)
My Invented Country (2003)
The Sum of Our Days (2008)
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992)
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