The Zolotov Affair [Paperback]

Robert H. Rimmer (Author)

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Publication Date: April 1, 1971

The Zolotov Affair is Robert Rimmers great and bold novel of a golden age of sex. A scientific genius named Horace Zolotov believed the greatest power on earth was gold, and he had the know-how to test his belief. A fantastic girl named Marge Wentworth claimed it was sex, and she had the body to back up her claims. When these two teamed to produce the theory and practice of sexenomics, they set out to make the world stand up and take notice.

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In the sixties and early seventies The Harrad Experiment and Proposition 31 became watchwords for the "hippie generation". As millions of students on campuses across the country read and talked about his books, little did they know, their hero was well past thirty.Bob started writing early in life. As a high school student in Massachusetts in the 1930s, he wrote articles for, as well as helped print and distribute, a small local magazine entitled Boy's Pal. He graduated from Bates College with a multi-discipline degree in English, Psychology and Philosophy and later obtained an MBA from Harvard. His life has been an eventful one. His military service during and after World War II included both at-home and overseas assignments. After his enlistment was up, Rimmer returned to the US and took a position in the family printing business. He spent the next twenty-five years of his life working, raising a family, and collecting his life experiences and formulating them into what would later become events and characters in his many novels.His first two novels, The Rebellion of Yale Marratt and That Girl from Boston, were written before 1960 and were considered much too controversial to publish. However, after years of mail-order sales through a small publisher in California, Rimmer's The Harrad Experiment was published by Bantam in 1967 and was finally available to a wide audience. Within a year over a million copies had been sold. More novels followed, including Proposition 31. All of these novels explored alternatives to traditional relationships and sexuality, subjects very much at the forefront of the public's interest in the 1970's. Now in his eighties, Bob Rimmer, always in the vanguard in his advocacy of alternatives to the traditional monogamous relationship, becomes one of the first authors to recognize the potential of the Internet to bring his books to millions of new readers. With fourteen novels to his credit and still going strong, this author has not only bro --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Signet (April 1, 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451045742
• ISBN-13: 978-0451045744
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,605,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great action novel by author of "The Harrad Experiment", December 26, 2007

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Robin E. Moore (Guntersville, AL United States) - See all my reviews
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The Zolotov Affair is Robert Rimmer's great and bold novel of a golden age of sex. A scientific genius named Horace Zolotov believed the greatest power on earth was gold, and he had the know-how to test his belief. A fantastic girl named Marge Wentworth claimed it was sex, and she had the body to back up her claims. When these two teamed to produce the theory and practice of sexenomics, they set out to make the world stand up and take notice.
The recurring theme in all or almost all of Rimmer's writing was a criticism of the assumption of monogamy as a societal norm. All the protagonists in his novels discover that they are happier in arrangements which would nowadays be called "polyamorous" or "polyfidelitous." They explore various ways of organizing life, through laws or other means, to facilitate such relationships. Though the books clearly have a point of view and an agenda, they work because Rimmer knew how to tell a story in a way that holds a reader's interest.

3.0 out of 5 stars Rimmer's Tangent, October 26, 2010

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Samuel Buzzelli (Bridgeville, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Zolotov Affair (Paperback)

This book will only be of interest to fans of RHR's books. It is only tangentially related to the Harrad Experiment which it precedes. Still, it is a good read and may be of interest to those now looking at gold as a good money management or investment tool.