Bride Stripped Bare, The - Softcover

"The sex is rude and raunchy and exactly where you want it."--Elle

"A powerful novel that does not flinch from strong emotion or description...luminous."--London Times

"One of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time."--Time Out New York

"An intensely honest look at a woman's inner thoughts and desires."--Dallas Morning News

"Artful...cannily perceptive...this unusual but strangely compelling novel offers an intimate chronicle of change and self-discovery."--Publishers Weekly

"Superbly executed: suspense, psychodrama, anger, tenderness and terror mingle with the restlessness of a vast, overpowering landscape."--London Times Literary Supplement

"A fierce, white-hot read."--Booklist

"Titillating...like an artful striptease, The Bride Stripped Bare ensnares us with its rawness."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A jazzy, nonlinear...narrative style as compelling and exotic as the landscape itself."--Baltimore Sun

"Wonderfully sensuous...witty in its construction...a subtle portrait of a modern marriage."--Independent

The diary of a believed unassuming wife recounts her blissfully happy honeymoon in Morocco and the devastating act of betrayal that prompts her to follow the advice of an anonymous writer to live her life according to her own desires. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.