- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (5 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006552072
- ISBN-13: 978-0006552079
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,282,463 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'If Ryman's material is potentially shocking, the way he handles it is … completely disarming. Scenes of graphic erotic intensity are counterbalanced by humour and tenderness … Ryman's imagination is quite extraordinary, and he possesses the skills to make emotionally believable something that's completely fantastic' Independent
'This book isn't ultimately about sex, or lust, but rather about the life that lust creates. And there are some very important themes here: pornography and power, science and art, animal rights, human rights, slavery, genetics, love, free-will, desire, quantum physics and the possibility of parallel universes' Independent on Sunday
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‘Has more emotional depth than a festival of tear-jerkers’ INDEPENDENT
‘A stylistically dazzling box of fireworks’
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‘Astonishingly vibrant… lyrical and totally engaging’
LA TIMES
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What if you could sleep with anyone in the world, just by thinking about it?
Michael Blasco, a young scientist, is waiting for the train when he spies a friend he fancies. Idly, he imagines Tony naked and an extraordinary thing happens – Tony strips there and then on the platform and offers himself in front of all onlookers. Horrified, Michael flees. But back home, Tony magically reappears. Then disappears, when Michael wishes him away.
Michael sets out to test the parameters of his new-found gift, rapidly calling up Billie Holiday, Johnny Weismuller, Lawrence of Arabia, Alexander the Great, Picassao, and even his younger self. The world is there for the taking and Michael runs the gamut of his fantasies. But what does he really want?
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Format:Paperback
After a great begining , surrealism in the tube station , it all became jus too silly for me . I just couldnt believe in the real people tarzan etc and so i found it all rather childish instead of sexy . rather like that bad film when John travolta was a fallen angel , it just seemed too absurd . Sorry .
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Living in London, Michael Blasco, good looking at 38, has been in a relationship for around twelve years, but things have not been going too well of late, and while they still share a bed, he and Philip otherwise seem to lead separate lives. Matters are not helped by Michaels impotence. He's a workaholic too, a research scientist and teacher just opening a new lad for his research project. It is then that he discovers he has a unique power, he is able to conjure out of nothing the attractive young man at his gym, and he can make him do whatever he wants, that includes wanting to sleep with Michael. Michael soon learns that he can summon almost anyone he desires, living or now dead. Being a scientist he also experiments with this power, and learns some of the limitations along with some advantages.
This new found power begins to take over his life, affecting his work and relations with real people, and while he can have anyone he wants (he calls them angels), he seems unable to establish a loving relationship with a real person. But can he live with his angels, among whom he calls up missed opportunities from his own past as well as the likes of Billie Holiday, Tarzan, Lawrence of Arabia and Picaso, not to mention a cartoon character and an entire New Zealand team?
This makes for a most interesting story. Ryman approaches the idea sensibly, using Michael's scientific mind as a means of maintaining a sense of reality to the fantasy. He is able to explore his ruined childhood relationship with his father, divorced from his mother and with whom he would spend his summers in the US; gradually he learns about himself, and eventually gains self respect. The slightly misleading title, Lust, while being perhaps one of Michael's perceived problems, hides a very thought provoking and well reasoned storyline that ponders a number of interesting questions and possibilities, which Ryman does not neglect.
This new found power begins to take over his life, affecting his work and relations with real people, and while he can have anyone he wants (he calls them angels), he seems unable to establish a loving relationship with a real person. But can he live with his angels, among whom he calls up missed opportunities from his own past as well as the likes of Billie Holiday, Tarzan, Lawrence of Arabia and Picaso, not to mention a cartoon character and an entire New Zealand team?
This makes for a most interesting story. Ryman approaches the idea sensibly, using Michael's scientific mind as a means of maintaining a sense of reality to the fantasy. He is able to explore his ruined childhood relationship with his father, divorced from his mother and with whom he would spend his summers in the US; gradually he learns about himself, and eventually gains self respect. The slightly misleading title, Lust, while being perhaps one of Michael's perceived problems, hides a very thought provoking and well reasoned storyline that ponders a number of interesting questions and possibilities, which Ryman does not neglect.
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