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Original bliss

"Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and the importance of "interior lives." Edward G. Gluck, she discovers has developed a program that guides lost souls toward contentment. Helen seeks him out, hoping to find an answer. Instead she discovers Gluck's own sadomasochistic obsession, and his profound shame and disgust. And what they both encounter, painfully, is the love each fears and both yearn to embrace." -- Publisher's description.

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  • ""Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and the importance of "interior lives." Edward G. Gluck, she discovers has developed a program that guides lost souls toward contentment. Helen seeks him out, hoping to find an answer. Instead she discovers Gluck's own sadomasochistic obsession, and his profound shame and disgust. And what they both encounter, painfully, is the love each fears and both yearn to embrace." -- Publisher's description."@en
  • "A Scottish matron made miserable by an abusive husband flies to Germany to seek advice from a TV sex therapist. The sex is great, but his taste for pornography turns her off, so she leaves him, only to seek him out again."
  • ""Kennedy is a world class writer."--The New York Times Book Review A brilliant American debut from one of Scotland's most acclaimed writers, named by Granta as one of the Twenty Best Young British Novelists. Emotionally numb, crippled with insomnia, and caught in a frightening, abusive marriage, Helen Brindle believes that God has recently left her. She spends her days performing banal domestic chores in front of a blaring television. On the BBC one day she watches a self-help guru expound on, among other things, the "rules" of masturbation and the importance of "interior lives." Edward G. Gluck, she discovers has developed a program that guides lost souls toward contentment. Helen seeks him out, hoping to find an answer. Instead she discovers Gluck's own sadomasochistic obsession, and his profound shame and disgust. And what they both encounter, painfully, is the love each fears and both yearn to embrace. "A darkly comic tale.... [that] is hilariously funny about sexual obsession and brilliantly perceptive about the dynamics of human relationships."--The Baltimore Sun."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"
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  • "Volupté singulière"
  • "Original bliss"
  • "Original bliss"@en
  • "Gleissendes Glück"
  • "Volupté singulière : roman"
  • "El Éxtasis"
  • "El extasis"@es
  • "Gleissendes Glück : Roman"
  • "Stati di grazia"
  • "Stati di grazia"@it
  • "El éxtasis"@es
  • "Gleißendes Glück Roman"
  • "Volupté singulière roman"
  • "Ein makelloser Mann : Erzählungen"
  • "Gleissendes Glück Roman"
  • "Gleißendes Glück : Roman"
  • "Ein makelloser Mann"
  • "Original Bliss"@en

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