Desire CL

women, but also a great women's novel which richly deserves a wider audience. Informed by a lively intelligence, rich in detail, history, story, "alternate & altered states." THIS is a women's book I'd love to see in college curriculums for women's studies! I compare her not only to Anais Nin but to Lawrence, Miller....but unique in these times.

If you want to read a novel that's truly unlike anything you've ever experienced, I'd suggest tracking down a copy of Amy Wallace's DESIRE - sadly, you'll have to hit the local library or used bookstore, since it's not in print any more. Love, obsession, pearls, and sea monsters (yes, that's right, SEA MONSTERS) are just a few of the elements that Ms. Wallace ably weaves into this alternately terrifying, erotic, disturbing, and - finally - supremely moving book; not only an extraordinary first novel, but just an extraordinary novel, period.