Monsieur

With beautiful writing careful, precious and incandescent Emma Becker explores the dangers of the passion that burns between the soul and sex addiction.

Deviant . . . hilarious and merciless at once.

With beautiful writing--careful, precious and incandescent--Emma Becker explores the dangers of the passion that burns between the soul and sex addiction.

Deviant . . . hilarious andmerciless at once.

Between sexual frenzy andemotional fragility, there is an unprecedented self-portrait in thetwenty-year-old daughter the one that discovered the world.

With beautifulwriting careful, precious and incandescent Emma Becker explores the dangers ofthe passion that burns between the soul and sex addiction.

Between sexual frenzy and emotional fragility, there is an unprecedented self-portrait in the twenty-year-old daughter the one that discovered the world.

What sort of woman has a taste for middle-aged, married men? Ellie, twenty years old and living in Paris, leads a light and carefree life until she meets “Mister”—a married surgeon approaching middle age. Beginning with their frenzied affair in a hotel room in the fifteenth arrondissement, Monsieur details the clandestine Tuesday morning hotel meetings and fleeting phone calls spanning several months of sexual adventure. Generous with her body and never lacking erotic imagination (or partners—men and women), Ellie illuminates her deviations in a lucid, ferocious, and passionate tale.   
Often shocking but never gratuitous, Monsieur is, paradoxically, a coming-of-age story—her seduction of the married man and its devastating aftermath leaving Ellie older and wiser than she once was after their four-month affair comes to its unpredictable conclusion.  At once a novel-confession and a description of the descent from passion to cruel fantasy, this is the disenchantment of a contemporary Lolita.