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Three the Hard Way: Erotic Novellas
Susie Bright Three the Hard Way
Erotic Novellas by William Harrison, Greg Boyd, and Tsaurah Litzky
Pull down the shades and settle in for pleasure with this trio of erotic novellas -- handpicked by Susie Bright -- showcasing stories that are hot and masterful.
Susie Bright, hailed by The New York Times as "the avatar of American erotica," is the undisputed grandmaster of the genre. Now she has handpicked three rising stars -- new masters -- whose stories will delight, arouse, and captivate you.
Connected by a central theme -- the idea that one sexual moment can change a person forever -- each story is wildly different from anything you have read before.
In "Shadow of a Man," Emmy Award-winning writer William Harrison takes us to South Africa, where a photographer who thinks he's seen -- and done -- it all begins an intense affair with the daughter of a famous general. "The Motion of the Ocean" is Tsaurah Litzky's undaunted story about a woman's coming-of-age from her adolescence in the 1960s to the over-the-top sexuality of the 1990s. Greg Boyd's "The Widow" is about the consequences that transpire when a husband reads an erotic novel that his wife has been writing in secret. In it, she has fantasized the outrageous sexual experiences of a widow.
Sensual, provocative, funny, and profound, Three the Hard Way is a pleasure trove of great finds discovered by America's most trusted name in erotica.
Erotic Novellas by William Harrison, Greg Boyd, and Tsaurah Litzky
Pull down the shades and settle in for pleasure with this trio of erotic novellas -- handpicked by Susie Bright -- showcasing stories that are hot and masterful.
Susie Bright, hailed by The New York Times as "the avatar of American erotica," is the undisputed grandmaster of the genre. Now she has handpicked three rising stars -- new masters -- whose stories will delight, arouse, and captivate you.
Connected by a central theme -- the idea that one sexual moment can change a person forever -- each story is wildly different from anything you have read before.
In "Shadow of a Man," Emmy Award-winning writer William Harrison takes us to South Africa, where a photographer who thinks he's seen -- and done -- it all begins an intense affair with the daughter of a famous general. "The Motion of the Ocean" is Tsaurah Litzky's undaunted story about a woman's coming-of-age from her adolescence in the 1960s to the over-the-top sexuality of the 1990s. Greg Boyd's "The Widow" is about the consequences that transpire when a husband reads an erotic novel that his wife has been writing in secret. In it, she has fantasized the outrageous sexual experiences of a widow.
Sensual, provocative, funny, and profound, Three the Hard Way is a pleasure trove of great finds discovered by America's most trusted name in erotica.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
William Harrison
239 books6 followersWilliam Harrison (18 April 1534 – 24 April 1593) was an English clergyman.
Harrison entered Christ Church, Oxford and in 1560 was awarded his Bachelor's degree. Continuing his theological studies at Cambridge, Harrison took the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1571. In the same year he was instituted vicar of Wimbish in Essex. Harrison also held positions at another two London parishes. Near the end of his life, Harrison received an appointment as a canon at St. George's Chapel at Windsor, city wherehe was buried in 1593.
Harrison has principally been known for his "Description of England", first published in 1577 as part of "Holinshed's Chronicle". This work enumerated England's geographic, economic, social, religious and political features and represents an important source for historians interested in life in Elizabethan England. He gathered his facts from books, letters, maps, the notes of John Leland, and conversations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends John Stow and William Camden. He also used his own observation, experience and wit, and wrote in a conversational tone without pedantry, which has made the work a Harvard Classic. The result is a compendium of Elizabethan England during the youth of William Shakespeare. "No work of the time contains so vivid and picturesque a sketch," was the assessment of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
Harrison also wrote a number of unpublished manuscripts, including The Great English Chronologie. This work traced fortunes of the Christian church in history, stretching from creation to his own time. In the Chronologie, Harrison revealed his sympathy with the Calvinist perspective of those seeking to reform the Church of England. At the same time, Harrison also indicated his distrust of the political intentions of England's Puritans and his ultimate loyalty to England's ecclesiastical authorities.
Harrison entered Christ Church, Oxford and in 1560 was awarded his Bachelor's degree. Continuing his theological studies at Cambridge, Harrison took the degree of Bachelor of Divinity in 1571. In the same year he was instituted vicar of Wimbish in Essex. Harrison also held positions at another two London parishes. Near the end of his life, Harrison received an appointment as a canon at St. George's Chapel at Windsor, city wherehe was buried in 1593.
Harrison has principally been known for his "Description of England", first published in 1577 as part of "Holinshed's Chronicle". This work enumerated England's geographic, economic, social, religious and political features and represents an important source for historians interested in life in Elizabethan England. He gathered his facts from books, letters, maps, the notes of John Leland, and conversations with antiquaries and local historians like his friends John Stow and William Camden. He also used his own observation, experience and wit, and wrote in a conversational tone without pedantry, which has made the work a Harvard Classic. The result is a compendium of Elizabethan England during the youth of William Shakespeare. "No work of the time contains so vivid and picturesque a sketch," was the assessment of The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
Harrison also wrote a number of unpublished manuscripts, including The Great English Chronologie. This work traced fortunes of the Christian church in history, stretching from creation to his own time. In the Chronologie, Harrison revealed his sympathy with the Calvinist perspective of those seeking to reform the Church of England. At the same time, Harrison also indicated his distrust of the political intentions of England's Puritans and his ultimate loyalty to England's ecclesiastical authorities.
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January 22, 2012
The novellas in Three the Hard Way were a little hit and mostly miss for me. In all three stories, the writing was excellent -- not what I was necessarily expecting from erotica -- a genre that I have not dabbled in before.
But the narrative of Tsaurah Litzky's The Motion of the Ocean felt completely fragmented. Each chapter could have been about a completely different character, if the names hadn't been the same. It didn't feel like a cohesive story, just a collection of hardly-related short stories all mashed together into an uncomfortable semblance of a novella.
Greg Boyd's The Widow was the gem of the bunch. He superbly melds two stories together: an erotic short story written by Mandy Millhouse--an unassuming but unfulfilled housewife; and the story of Mandy's husband after he discovers the first pages of her story unclaimed on the printer and begins reading along in secret, wondering what it means that the husband in her very autobiographical short story is killed off in the first few pages by an unexpected heart attack. The stories sing in harmony and really give you the unique feeling that you are glimpsing the secret and private lives of others' most intimate thoughts and moments.
William Harrison's A Shadow of a Man had some interesting elements and good characters. But the ending was a big let-down not only to the novella but for the collection.
The taste levels, too, were questionable for me and a slight turn-off to dabbling in this genre again. I'd rather stick to books like Kushiel's Dart, The Valley of Horses, and Outlander, which deliver strong emotion and character sympathy along with a good dose of romance.
But the narrative of Tsaurah Litzky's The Motion of the Ocean felt completely fragmented. Each chapter could have been about a completely different character, if the names hadn't been the same. It didn't feel like a cohesive story, just a collection of hardly-related short stories all mashed together into an uncomfortable semblance of a novella.
Greg Boyd's The Widow was the gem of the bunch. He superbly melds two stories together: an erotic short story written by Mandy Millhouse--an unassuming but unfulfilled housewife; and the story of Mandy's husband after he discovers the first pages of her story unclaimed on the printer and begins reading along in secret, wondering what it means that the husband in her very autobiographical short story is killed off in the first few pages by an unexpected heart attack. The stories sing in harmony and really give you the unique feeling that you are glimpsing the secret and private lives of others' most intimate thoughts and moments.
William Harrison's A Shadow of a Man had some interesting elements and good characters. But the ending was a big let-down not only to the novella but for the collection.
The taste levels, too, were questionable for me and a slight turn-off to dabbling in this genre again. I'd rather stick to books like Kushiel's Dart, The Valley of Horses, and Outlander, which deliver strong emotion and character sympathy along with a good dose of romance.
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