From Publishers Weekly
Endowed with pots of old money and a taste for kinky sex, Lara Stanton is the star of this gilt-edged peepshow of a tale. Lara's sensual nature is awakened when she discovers a cousin sporting with a pair of nubile young women. She soon enjoys her first sexual encounter with Sam Fayne, the adoring boy next door who has impeccable social standing and is also a nice guy. For a time, Lara becomes secretly obsessed with Jamal Ben El-Raisuli, a wealthy Moroccan philanderer, even though their exploitative and exotic sexual encounters erode her self-esteem. Thus Lara, continent-hopping on her private jet, scampers through life (including a couple of marriages and divorces) looking for a husband who falls between these extremes: one who is kind, monogamous and mildly depraved. Latow ( Three Rivers , which has sold more than 600,000 copies in paperback) says that characters are interesting instead of making them so. Evan Valentine, one of Lara's lovers, has won a Nobel Prize, been knighted by the queen of England and graced the cover of Time , but after Lara gives his privates a workout, the best line he can manage is "This is the first day of the rest of my life."
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
Vastly powerful and influential, the Stantons were the pinnacle of New York's high society . . . .
They were the very embodiment of discretion, secrecy, and above all, honor and good manners. And in their midst, golden girl Lara Victoria Stanton grew up lovingly spoiled: indulged and adored by her father and brothers, organized by her mother like a favorite charity to one day assume her role as grande dame of American high society.
But the men who were drawn into her family's powerful orbit would open up a world to Lara of insatiable desires, rapturous ecstasy, and sometimes heartbreaking torment. And the more Lara spent her days posing as a highly respectable daughter, the more she yearned for the coming of night, when forbidden pleasures sated her secret hungers, when her quest to go deeper into her own dark desires could continue. Yet for all her extraordinary lovers, Lara found she was still looking for the one great passion that would fulfill her emotionally, physically, and forever . . . .
They were the very embodiment of discretion, secrecy, and above all, honor and good manners. And in their midst, golden girl Lara Victoria Stanton grew up lovingly spoiled: indulged and adored by her father and brothers, organized by her mother like a favorite charity to one day assume her role as grande dame of American high society.
But the men who were drawn into her family's powerful orbit would open up a world to Lara of insatiable desires, rapturous ecstasy, and sometimes heartbreaking torment. And the more Lara spent her days posing as a highly respectable daughter, the more she yearned for the coming of night, when forbidden pleasures sated her secret hungers, when her quest to go deeper into her own dark desires could continue. Yet for all her extraordinary lovers, Lara found she was still looking for the one great passion that would fulfill her emotionally, physically, and forever . . . .
