The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro - Hardcover

Fell, Alison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151001863 ISBN 13: 9780151001866

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996

Synopsis

Eleventh-century Japanese stable boy Oyu is charged with assisting the Lady Onogoro, a poet and concubine of the general Motosuke, by telling her erotic stories while she makes love with the general. Tour.

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About the Author:

ALISON S. FELL is Lecturer in French at Lancaster University, UK. She is author of Liberty, Equality, Maternity (2003) and has published widely on Twentieth-century women's writing and culture. She is currently writing a book on First World War French nurse memoirs.

From Library Journal:

In this novel, apparently based on the classic Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, and edited by a Scottish poet and novelist. Lady Onogoro is a poet and mistress of an imaginary general Motosuke in 11th-century Japan. To assist her performance in bed, Lady Onogoro, who has been having trouble achieving orgasm, hides the blind stable boy, Oyu, behind a screen at the head of her bed. He arouses her by whispering erotic stories in her ear while the general has sex with her. Complications arise and Lady Onogoro gains some insight on her own situation. Cleverly and humorously written, this novel portrays court life in Kyoto from a woman's point of view. The erotic stories are fanciful and entertaining. Recommended for public and academic libraries.?Ann Irvine, Montgomery Cty. P.L., Md.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0151001863
• ISBN 13: 9780151001866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 247