Jealousy

Jealousy

From orgies to anger... the other life of Catherine Millet.

Catherine Millet, the 'grande dame of female erotica' and author of the infamous memoir, The Sexual Life of Catherine M, is back. But where can she go from here? The reckless pleasure seeker, the sexual siren, the libertine lover and anathema to monogamy has returned with a sequel more shocking than anyone could have predicted...

The Sexual Life of Catherine M, Catherine Millet's diary of sexual encounters and explorations, was an internationally renowned bestseller that pushed erotica into the mainstream and changed the way that women could write about sex. Readers marveled at how she reconciled her part-time life of sexual decadence while living with long-term partner, the writer Jacques Henric. She explained, 'I had love at home... I sought only pleasure in the world outside'.

That was until the day she found a letter in their apartment which revealed that Jacques too was involved elsewhere. Jealousy recounts the personal crisis provoked by this discovery and her devastating reaction to it as she grieves for the life she thought they had together. If The Sexual Life of Catherine M, seemed to reject emotion, then Jealosuy is its radical and stylish complement: the paradoxical confession of a libertine who succumbs to the 'timeless and universal malady'.

This is Catherine M's journey from desire to devastation.

'Jealousy is a painful, stifling, deeply moving love story. It is not the dark counterpart of The Sexual Life but rather its continuation. With a flamboyant crudeness, a cold cruelty (aimed at herself), with astounding lucidity, Catherine Millet describes this loss of self-balance and the crushing of the body thrust against the walls' Le Monde.

Born in 1948 in Bois Colombes, Catherine Millet is a French art critic, curator, and founder and editor of the prestigious magazine Art Press. She is best known as the author of the 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M, which was translated into forty languages and sold millions of copies. She lives in Paris with the poet and novelist Jacques Henric.

Jealousy
Allen and Unwin
Author: Catherine Millet
Price: $32.99