The Gentle Degenerates (The Vassi Collection) - Softcover

Vassi, Marco

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497640784 ISBN 13: 9781497640788

Publisher: Open Road Media, 2014

Synopsis

“There is love, which is neither personal nor impersonal; and there is sex, which is either personal or impersonal. We understand our bodies, we learn how to let go, we strive for pleasure, and learn how to give-to-get.”

A young man let loose in the human potential movement travels from one end of the country to the other, opening himself to all the possible variations of sexual experience, trying to find love in the midst of explosive and unlimited sensuality. He finds new opportunities, new positions, opening up to him . . . and somewhere between the pain of love and the joy of lust, he must confront the very nature of his sexual yearning.

About this title

About the Author:

Marco Vassi was, without a doubt, the foremost erotic writer of our generation. Praised by Norman Mailer, Kate Millett, Saul Bellow, and Gore Vidal, he was not only the ultimate sexual explorer, but a literary craftsman whose own life experiences became the stuff of his fiction—expanded, of course, by a grand imagination and a full sense of the absurd.

Tragically, Vassi died from pneumonia after he had contracted AIDS.

Review:

Marco Vassi aficionados as well as the uninitiated will be glad to hear that ten of Vassi's books, all long out of print and generally unavailable, have been republished. Vassi's life and his writing were so intimately connected that it often was hard to tell which was at the service of the other. His novels stand as vivid documentation of the crazy wisdom and the exhilarated sexual explorations that occurred during what we sometimes honor but more often dismiss these days as 'the sexual revolution'. -- David Steinberg, LIBIDO

About this edition

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1497640784
• ISBN 13: 9781497640788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172