{"product_id":"the-edge-of-pleasure-paperback","title":"The Edge of Pleasure - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilippa Stockley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilver Memmer is running short of time. He is an enormously gifted painter, staggeringly good-looking, and profoundly self-involved, a cross between every woman's dream and every woman's worst nightmare. Great though his creative gifts may be, they cannot save him from dissolution. No longer the London art scene's wunderkind, he is getting by on the fumes of his former luck and sliding inexorably-though with a certain self-destructive elegance-toward oblivion. Into Gilver's life come two women: one who wants to push him into the grave he has been digging for himself and another who just might save him from it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilver Memmer is running out of time. A fiercely gifted artist, he is staggeringly good-looking and profoundly self-involved--a cross between every woman's fantasy and every woman s worst nightmare. His creative genius cannot save him from dissolution, however. No longer the London art scene's wunderkind, as the novel opens he is getting by on the fumes of his former success, sliding inexorably though with self-destructive elegance toward oblivion. Into Gilver's life come two women: one who wants to push him into the grave he has been digging for himself and the other who might just pull him back from the brink. \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London) Book of the Year \u003cbr\u003e\"There is much to enjoy in Stockley's sly, tart mix of sex, painting and mischance, confected with a naughty, sophisticated glitter.\"--\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail \u003c\/i\u003e(London) \u003cbr\u003e\"Stockley loves all things exotic and stylish and lingers over her nastier characters with relish . . . A vividly sensual novel, packed with colors and scents and textures.\"--\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard \u003c\/i\u003e(London) \u003cbr\u003ePraise for A FACTORY OF CUNNING \u003cbr\u003e\"Even if you've never fantasized about Jane Austen in leather, you'll get a kick out of \u003ci\u003eA Factory of Cunning\u003c\/i\u003e . . . The pages of this unscrupulous story are lined with lace, silk and muslin--all of it stitched together in a fabric of shimmering deceit.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Deliciously wicked . . . Stockley is such a clever writer that somehow the relevance of her naughty historical novel peeks through.\"--\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHILIPPA STOCKLEY \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eA Factory of Cunning\u003c\/i\u003e. A deputy editor at the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard, \u003c\/i\u003e she lives in London. \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.92 x 8.04 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 20, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123735478411,"sku":"9780156032100","price":28.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0670\/2579\/7259\/files\/srdMRqJ5ZU9780156032100.webp?v=1780465824","url":"https:\/\/thetaletrade.com\/products\/the-edge-of-pleasure-paperback","provider":"The Tale Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}