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Yearn: Tales of Lust and Longing
by Tobsha Learner
Published: 2013-12-31
Paperback : 400 pages
Paperback : 400 pages
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Boundary-pushing erotica for readers eager to move beyond Fifty Shades of Gray
Tobsha Learner has won international acclaim for her deeply atmospheric and lyrical brand of erotic fiction. In Yearn, the author of Quiver and Tremble continues to probe the complexities of desire, ...
Tobsha Learner has won international acclaim for her deeply atmospheric and lyrical brand of erotic fiction. In Yearn, the author of Quiver and Tremble continues to probe the complexities of desire, ...
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Boundary-pushing erotica for readers eager to move beyond Fifty Shades of Gray
Tobsha Learner has won international acclaim for her deeply atmospheric and lyrical brand of erotic fiction. In Yearn, the author of Quiver and Tremble continues to probe the complexities of desire, obsession, and lust to offer readers myriad possibilities for indulging their deepest fantasies.
From the movie star who longs for anonymity to the telemarketer seeking an online release to the eighteenth-century biographer who discovers a magic, erotic ritual that will change his life forever, Learner offers nine witty, sensual, and provocative short stories that are guaranteed to satisfy readers’ growing appetite for erotic fiction.
Tobsha Learner has won international acclaim for her deeply atmospheric and lyrical brand of erotic fiction. In Yearn, the author of Quiver and Tremble continues to probe the complexities of desire, obsession, and lust to offer readers myriad possibilities for indulging their deepest fantasies.
From the movie star who longs for anonymity to the telemarketer seeking an online release to the eighteenth-century biographer who discovers a magic, erotic ritual that will change his life forever, Learner offers nine witty, sensual, and provocative short stories that are guaranteed to satisfy readers’ growing appetite for erotic fiction.
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INKIt is an old story, an allegory of power if you like, of the tragedy that happens when two men overreach themselves, or the terror that ?lls a creator when he realizes his creation has become more gifted than he. It is one that even I, the most successful writer of my times, know well, for we must all, eventually, give way to the young. And this story involves a very young writer, a passionate individual with the gifts of both beauty and rhetoric—blazing in his ambition. The now infamous D’Arcy Hammer. Perhaps you have heard of him? ...
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Discussion Questions
1. In what way does the psychology of the characters reflect in their sexuality?2. YEARN is the most recent in Learner’s series of erotic short stories, and in some ways more about longing and the nature of desire rather than consummated love, in what way do the individual stories reflect this?
3. Jealousy (both imagined and real) weaves through this collection as a theme, how does it contribute to some of the more tragic outcomes of the stories (ie in Alchemy of Coincidence, Ink and Barrow Boy) How does Learner use this to drive the sexual behaviour of her characters?
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