6/30/2023 0 Comments My Hundred Lovers by Susan Johnson![]() ![]() By turns humorous, sharp, haunting and wise, this is an original and exhilarating novel from one of Australia's premier writers. ![]() After the love, hatred and despair are done with, the great and trivial acts of her bodily life reveal an imperfect, yet whole self. ![]() A woman, on the eve of her fiftieth birthday, reflects on one hundred moments from a lifetime's sensual adventures. There was a man in my bed and I did not know how he got there. There was a cry, far off, almost out of earshot. The curtains were cream and blew softly in the wind. ' Geraldine Brooks That afternoon in the small bedroom the light was blue. Susan Johnson is a writer in her prime, and her most enduring love affair is with language itself. 'Confronting the inevitable desiccation of her ageing body, a woman reflects on her life as an erotic adventurer, and through these vivid stories of the flesh, a mind and a soul emerge in full. ![]()
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