Thongs [Paperback]

Alexander Trocchi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 25, 2008

Thongs, by "Carmenicita de Las Lunas" (Trocchi), is among the author's most vibrant and respected works. The book gives us Gertrude Gault, the Grand Painmistress, and follows her career from the ghettos of Glasgow to her rebirth as Carmenicita de Las Lunas, greatest of all painmasters, before finally ending in a conclusion, staggering in its originality, imagination, and explicitness. Additional kudos to Trocchi for his ability to remain on topic throughout an entire work.

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From the Publisher

In Spain, life is cheap, from that glittering tragedy in the bullring to the quick thrust of the stiletto in a narrow street in a Barcelona slum. No, this death would not have called for further comment had it not been for one striking fact. The naked woman had met her end in a way he had never seen before a way that had enormous sexual significance. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Olympia Press (July 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596540575
• ISBN-13: 978-1596540576
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,502,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A different type of erotic experience, August 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Thongs: A Novel (Paperback)

Thongs is not a typical piece of erotica, if one even exists. :) It tells the story of a young Irish girl, growing up in the dirty streets and despised by her parents. An underlying mystical aura about her, you begin to understand that she is "bound" for something very special and unusual where sexuality is concerned. The story does a great job of humanizing the heroine through her many degrading acts, running a gamut of sexual possibilities without surrendering her most prized virginity to the men she encounters. An arousing and well written piece of erotica that might just make you cry as well. As an erotic writer myself, I found it an inspiring read.

-Mistress Twilight Blue

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An epiphany of violation., October 21, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Thongs: A Novel (Paperback)

An extremely carnal read; where passivity is an act of power, and where exercising power is shown to be ultimately an act of surrender. The ambiguity of this terrain, while filled with stereotypes of gender roles (rich English masochists, Glasgow tough men, carnal Priestesses, etc), gives the book an androgyny of feeling. The violations and pleasures cut so thoroughly through the participants' conscious roles and desires, the reader of whatever persuasion and gender is left as penetrated as the characters. Cold yet sweat drenched.