Ironwood [Paperback]

Don Winslow (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1998

James Carrington’s bleak prospects were transformed overnight when the young man found himself offered a choice position at Ironwood, a unique finishing school where young women were trained to become premiere Ladies of Pleasure. James would face many challenges in taming the spirited beauties in his charge, but no test would be as great as that of mastering Mrs. Cora Blasingdale, the proud Mistress of Ironwood. This is the exclusively revised and enlarged edition of this modern classic.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Blue Moon Books (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562010514
• ISBN-13: 978-1562010515
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The first of certainly a classic series of erotica books, May 7, 2002

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Rudolf Spoerer "dowadiddi" (Weston, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ironwood (Paperback)

In this book we find the narrator, James, a 20's something young man, tainted by the idle life of the rich, summoned to a school for young girls, Ironwood, located, of course, in a secluded backwoods. James, Being the black sheep of his family on the verge of being disinherited by his family, jumps at the chance to go to Ironwood at the behest of his rouge uncle to take up a position that is the fantasy of young men.

The school, run by Cora Blasingdale, is dedicated to collecting very young girls for training as houskeepers, (for the ugly ones) while the rest are well trained, highly submissive, sexual partners for the wealthy. James, being the only male at the school, is very quickly introduced to the gentle teaching methods of the matrons that the reader could describe as S/M with fur gloves ....

Although James does get to taste the forbidden fruit at the school, most of the sex scenes are adolescent and rarely finish in what would be expected in an adult sexual encounter. That frustrating fact notwithstanding, I did finish the book surprised that the author managed to maintain my attention while other books of the same genre would have had me screaming after the fifth spanking of the young charges.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Satisfying, December 17, 2000

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This review is from: Ironwood (Paperback)

Unlike the another reviewer here, I don't consider a work of erotica on the same terms as, say, the latest bestseller. I don't consider it in light of a classic by DH Lawrence either, although the setting and mood of Ironwood could be more readily compared to something by Lawrence.

The point is, whether one judges a book of erotica in literary terms or not, the bottom line is that one reads erotica to become aroused. If the subtlties of style and how well the writer has dealt with the cliches of the trade matter to you, you should pay close attention to the other review.