Innocence in Extremis

This offshoot from the author's novel, Adventures in the Alaskan Skin Trade, shows us innocence lost-not so much to experience as to the erotic imagination and its astonishing images. An American family returns to its native France for a reunion with the grandparents. As the story evolves, crowned by three bizarre and visionary scenes, we learn-along with the 12-year-old protagonist, of the family's heritage of sexual despotism and its morality of extremes: "Nothing too much" is the family motto.