{"product_id":"9781921921131","title":"Triptych, An Erotic Adventure: 3 Stories in 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this suite of three linked erotic stories, Krissy Kneen takes a frank delight in the project of arousal. Transgressive, sardonic, lyrical, and irresistibly sexy, she addresses taboos of all kinds with warmth and subtle wit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePursuing sexual adventure online, Susanna finds a soul mate among the anonymous onanists. But is it possible the mystery man lives in her own building?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeda's first love brings tenderness, heartbreak and a powerful sexual awakening at the behest of Paul and Rachel, two very different best friends.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSome couples find as time passes they start to become like brother and sister. For Aaron and Katherine, it's more complicated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKrissy Kneen\u003c\/b\u003e is a bookseller and writer. She is the author of a short collection of erotica, \u003cem\u003eSwallow the Sound\u003c\/em\u003e, and a memoir, \u003cem\u003eAffection\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Brisbane with her husband and no pets.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'With nods to Anais Nin and Vladimir Nabokov, Kneen writes with tenderness, joy and delight. Each character is genuinely curious about the possibilities of sexual pleasure. Their sexual lives are woven with humility, desire and transgression...Someone once said the difference between pornography and art is that pornography makes you stop and have sex, while art makes you keep reading. The jury is out with \u003ci\u003eTriptych\u003c\/i\u003e: it's delightful, courageous and juicy but be warned, it might take you a while to finish.' \u003ci\u003eBig Issue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Make no mistake: \u003ci\u003eTriptych\u003c\/i\u003e is pornography (or, if you prefer, erotica) but it's the type Angela Carter must have had in mind when she wrote about the \"moral pornographer\", someone who fosters acceptance for \"a world of absolute sexual licence for all genders, and projects a model of the way such a world might work\". \u003ci\u003eTriptych\u003c\/i\u003e does this not by being didactic or presenting stereotypically \"empowering\" scenarios, but by showing people joyfully, shamelessly doing things usually labelled as sordid and shameful. Whether reading it helps you get off or just increases your understanding of how others might, a happy ending is guaranteed.' \u003ci\u003eWeekend Australian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'As everyone who has ever tried to do it knows, writing well about sex is difficult to the point of impossibility. But Krissy Kneen, as readers of her first book, \u003ci\u003eAffection\u003c\/i\u003e, will be aware, is one of the few writers around who seems to be able to manage it...I have great admiration for this book and frankly enjoyed reading it but it's definitely not for the squeamish.' \u003ci\u003eBendigo Advertiser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e 'Kneen gets away with it all. Her writing is leisured and quite seductive. And there certainly aren't too many other writers out there who could pull off a book of this nature.' \u003ci\u003eSaturday Age\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'If you plan to read only one book in which a woman has sex with a dog, pony and octopus, make it \u003ci\u003eTriptych\u003c\/i\u003e. Kneen's interconnected erotic stories happily transgress every sexual taboo, but \u003ci\u003eTriptych\u003c\/i\u003e doesn't just intend to shock. It's also unexpectedly tender, funny, disturbingly relatable and very, very readable.' Benjamin Law\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'This is an astounding look at different sorts of love, and Kneen is above all, a sensualist.' \u003ci\u003eAdelaide Advertiser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Not many self-confessed perverts can write as well as Krissy Kneen. \u003ci\u003eRave\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154150408432,"sku":"9781921921131","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781921921131_p0.jpg?v=1763632060","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781921921131","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}