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The Sadness of Sex

by Barry Yourgrau · 1995

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Soon to be a film premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, The Sadness of Sex is an exhilarating new collection of fiction. The author explores the imagination's twilit terrain in which love, lust and loss reside.

Themes
sexualitysexualityMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1990s1990sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 255 pages
Form
short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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