Little Cat, Tamara Faith Berger
Little Cat, Tamara Faith Berger
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Little Cat

Author: Tamara Faith Berger

Narrator: Samuel Flores, Felicity Munroe

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 07/11/2014


Synopsis

Two novels, two young women at the frontiers of sex. Like a series of Penthouse letters penned by Kathy Acker, Lie With Me recounts a woman's sexual escapades, picking up random men in bars for a series of increasingly extreme encounters, hoping to understand love from the far side of sluttiness. In The Way of the Whore, Mira, an introverted Jewish girl obsessed with Jean Genet, allows herself to be seduced by the sex industry, determined to find meaning in her tormented relationships with cruel men. Tamara Faith Berger's first two novels have been languishing out of print. They were scandalous when they were first published; substantially revised and returned to print, they're just as titillating and troubling now. "Treading a line between sublime experimentation and unsettling honesty, Little Cat rides a wave of female sexual energy. . . . 'Please, I want you to stay with me till it's over,' the narrator of 'Lie With Me' begs. With writing this good, it's hard not to.' - Quill & Quire "Berger's writing is significant, poignant and consciously uncomfortable. Her portrait of female sexuality is daring, original and troubling. Berger's language is crass; this isn't missionary-style 'love-making.' This is dirty, animalistic sex. This is pornography rubbing up against the literary establishment." - Telegraph-Journal Praise for Tamara Faith Berger's Maidenhead (winner of the 2012 Believer Book Award): "Myra's confusion, her passion, her need for possession and to be possessed, make this novel an incredible read, finding its place, as Sheila Heti (who should know) wrote, 'somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild and Michel Foucault.'" - Flavorwire "There are no easy moments, no comfort to be found in the searing prose. . . . When writers get young female sexuality right, stories become a revelation and such is the case with Maidenhead. The writing pulls the reader desperately close." - Roxane Gay, The Rumpus

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on July 31, 2013

I read this book based on a review I read in the Globe and Mail (link is here: [URL not allowed]) and after liking Maidenhead. This book is disturbing at times a hard read. In her afterword, the author says that 'porn needs a story' and I think that's what this book is.......more

Goodreads review by Joanna on November 16, 2020

I'm not sure what made me think that I should listen to books this graphic and disturbing as audiobooks. This was the opposite of comforting listening to accompany walks or household tasks. I should have saved these books to read to fuel feminist rage through written word. These two books, packaged......more

Goodreads review by Rene on August 05, 2022

This is two books in one volume. Of them I enjoyed ‘Lie with me’ better and thought the novella better than the movie. It is refreshing to read about sex from a female perspective, to hear how it feels, how it is craved, when it is needed in her words. Some of Lie with Me is told from different male......more

Goodreads review by Edward on December 30, 2022

These two early novels from Berger demonstrate her fearless commitment to literary sex and transcend mere erotica by the intensity and (in the second novel) smart observational details about prostitutes. This early work doesn't quite hit the heights of MAIDENHEAD and are more mood pieces than anythi......more

Goodreads review by PATTI on October 15, 2024

2 stories one book woot! I enjoyed reading both of them.......more