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The Other Side of Desire

The Other Side of Desire( )
Author: Bergner, Daniel
ISBN:978-0-06-175986-4
Publication Date:Jan 2009
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Book Format:Ebook
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How do we come to be who we are sexually? How do we cope with the forces of desire? How can we understand the relationship between the transcendent and the physical, between the wish for love and the anarchy of the erotic? Daniel Bergner looks for answers in the stories of four people whose longings are very different from our own: a devoted husband burdened by an insatiable foot fetish, a clothing designer who finds ecstasy in the pain of others, a man smitten with his young...
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Bergner, Daniel (Author)
Novelist and journalist Daniel Bergner was raised in Washington state, the son of two dedicated public servants.

While covering the annual Louisiana State Prison at Angola rodeo, he discovered corruption in the form of Warden Burl Cain, who requested a payment of $50,000 and the right of editorial control on Bergner's project.

Bergner's eventual book on the affair, God of the Rodeo: The Search for Hope, Faith and a Six-Second Ride in Louisiana's Angola Prison, deals in part with the fact that not all public servants are as helpful or as dedicated as his parents were.

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