{"product_id":"9780992120207","title":"he \u0026 She","description":"*** 5-star Silver Medal winner in the 2014 Readers' Favorite Annual International Award Contest ***\u003cp\u003eA Web photo of a dominatrix sends a man mired in midlife crisis on a last-ditch attempt to feel truly alive one more time, even if it kills him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There are multiple ways to view success in life, and Kit's journey through sexuality is not about preservation of the body, but of the soul... A remarkable investigation of a man attempting to save himself from stagnation.\" - IndieReader\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... a stylish piece of literary fiction... intellectually engaging throughout. A finely drawn portrait of desire in its fall and winter seasons.\"- BlueInk Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...All in all, this is a delectable novel about a man exploring his unknown sexual fantasies at the price of possibly losing his true self along the way.\"- Red City Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing numb to life, to his on-and-off girlfriend of many years, his career, even Scotch, a man turns fifty. He is a translator who can no longer dream of translating beautiful works of fiction. He is an amateur musician who can no longer dream of expressing his life on a higher plane, without words. As he glares inside himself he sees little but his declining sexuality, his crumbling hold on life, a growing list of failed relationships, and a darkening well of loneliness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStumbling upon an image on the Internet one night, he suddenly hears cell doors sliding open. He stares at a young woman, in profile, beautiful, unblinking, regal. Instinctively he knows that by lingering on that image he will shatter a relationship that has kept him on the sane side of loneliness as surely as if he stepped in front of a speeding eighteen-wheeler. But desperate to feel alive again before time runs out, he knows he must see the stranger behind the pixels on his laptop screen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough it is her image that first transfixes him, his eye afterwards chances on a handful of words on the Internet page. She is a dominatrix. The word triggers something inside him, blows the dust off fantasies trickling back to adolescence, and slowly begins to re-choreograph his decades of sexual memories. Was he ever really the dominant male he thought he was? Did he have a sexual alter-ego? Was this the last card he had to play in life? The face on the screen held the answer. He would find out even if it killed him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wayne Clark YUL\/NYC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49849786859760,"sku":"9780992120207","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780992120207","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}