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Ecco
March 2008
On Sale: March 11, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 006076015X
EAN: 9780060760151
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Hailed as "the contemporary American master of the love
story" (Publishers Weekly), bestselling author Scott Spencer
takes us on a psychologically intense—and brilliantly
funny—journey inside the world of international sex tourism. Avery Jankowsky is a thirty-seven-year-old Manhattan writer
scraping by on freelance assignments. Despite his lack of
ambition, and very much to his own surprise, he has won the
affections of Deirdre, a Columbia grad student many years
his junior. But when Deirdre tells him that she has been
having an affair, Avery's world is shattered. Beside himself with jealousy and grief, Avery heads across
town to meet his uncle Ezra for their monthly lunch date.
Ezra senses his nephew's fragile emotional state and makes a
startling proposition: Avery should use his tickets to an
all-expenses-paid international sex tour. Sensing a
white-hot book idea (and a chance to get back at Deirdre),
Avery agrees to go as an undercover journalist. As the tour bounces from one Nordic country to another,
Avery and his fellow travelers—most of them wealthy and
accomplished—descend ever deeper into a blinding world that
is equal parts hilarity and nightmare, until Avery suddenly
finds himself face-to-face with the one person he never
expected to see. A two-time National Book Award finalist, Spencer has already
given us some of the most remarkable tales of love and
passion in contemporary American fiction. Willing is at once
a lighter and a darker performance, a startling tour de
force that explores the limits of male restraint, the
intoxications of privilege, the maddening dangers of
freedom, and the knockdown, drag-out fight between our
instincts and our better natures.
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