Arnau Donate Donate itibaren Kediri
"The Handkerchief" tells the story of a deep and passionate but "ordinary" love in which the couple's "ordinary" love is called upon to meet the challenge of circumstance and temptation. The crucial question which is then posed - and to which "The Handkerchief" in the title refers - is not "Do you love me?" but "Did he make love to you?" In the course of the story there is a brutal murder of sexual revenge and a sad death by misadventure; but the story is really about the complexities of love and the many sides to sexual passion - its basic urges, the ugliness of its design and the beauty of its pleasures and of its so often overwhelming sentiments. In the latter part of "The Handkerchief" the hero and heroine - Jeremy and the exquisitely lovely Angie - embark on a second honeymoon which one delighted reader has called "a pornographic Odyssey." Indeed it is in some ways but it is an Odyssey too in which they - both of them -reveal themselves in their beguiling sinful innocence. As well as getting to know even more comprehensively than before the pleasures of sexual love, they also probe its jealousies and its relationship with other aspects of life. They hear a "Canterbury Tale" of unqualified carnal pleasure on the one hand - which this reader thoroughly and naughtily enjoyed - and, on the other hand, they marvel at both the differences and the undoubted affinities between divine and sexual love. They "resolve" their dilemma - if any of us ever do resolve such intricate and complex dilemmas - through the realisation of an "ordinary" and primal dream. You'll be aroused - physically - and entranced - sentimentally - by this book but, above all, you will find it a splendid and unusual "read."
This was a really interesting story, but the author (a granddaughter of one of the society girls) puts in too much stuff! She really stuck to the "history" of the events rather than the telling of a sweet tale of courage. Overall though, I enjoyed it. Women Rule!