{"product_id":"9781628727784","title":"Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with Anais Nin","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Revealing Look at the Mentorship—and Manipulation—of Anaïs Nin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anaïs Nin’s West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as Anaïs’s accomplice, keeping her mentor’s confidences—including that of her bigamy—even after Anaïs Nin’s death and the passing of her husbands, until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the underground literary worlds of Manhattan and Los Angeles during the sixties and seventies, Tristine charts her coming of age under the guidance of the infamous Anaïs Nin: author of the erotic bestseller \u003ci\u003eDelta of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e , lover to Henry Miller, Parisian diarist, and feminist icon of the sexual revolution. As an inexperienced college-bound girl from the San Fernando Valley, Tristine was dazzled by the sophisticated bohemian author and sought her instruction in becoming a woman. Tristine became a fixture of Anaïs’s inner circle, implicated in the mysterious author’s daring intrigues—while simultaneously finding her own path through love, lust, and loss. In what \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e calls a “spicy and saucy hybrid of memoir and novel,” \u003ci\u003eApprenticed to Venus\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life a seductive and entertaining character —the pioneer whose mantra was, “A woman has as much right to pleasure as a man!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intimate look at the intricacies—and risks—of the female mentor-protégé relationship, Tristine Rainer’s \u003ci\u003eApprenticed to Venus\u003c\/i\u003e stories her deep friendship, for good or ill, with a pivotal historical figure.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arcade Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036958769392,"sku":"9781628727784","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628727784_p0.jpg?v=1763867726","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628727784","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}