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A Revealing Look at the Mentorship―and Manipulation―of Ana?s Nin
Arcade Publishing
July 2017
On Sale: July 11, 2017
384 pages
ISBN: 1628727780
EAN: 9781628727784
Kindle: B01N4JBMUH
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to AnaΓ―s Ninβs West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as AnaΓ―sβs accomplice, keeping her mentorβs confidences―including that of her bigamy―even after AnaΓ―s Ninβs death and the passing of her husbands, until now. Set in the underground literary worlds of Manhattan and Los Angeles during the sixties and seventies, Tristine charts her coming of age under the guidance of the infamous AnaΓ―s Nin: author of the erotic bestseller Delta of Venus, lover to Henry Miller, Parisian diarist, and feminist icon of the sexual revolution. As an inexperienced college-bound girl from the San Fernando Valley, Tristine was dazzled by the sophisticated bohemian author and sought her instruction in becoming a woman. Tristine became a fixture of AnaΓ―sβs inner circle, implicated in the mysterious authorβs daring intrigues―while simultaneously finding her own path through love, lust, and loss. In what Kirkus calls a βspicy and saucy hybrid of memoir and novel,β Apprenticed to Venus brings to life a seductive and entertaining character ―the pioneer whose mantra was, βA woman has as much right to pleasure as a man!β An intimate look at the intricacies―and risks―of the female mentor-protΓ©gΓ© relationship, Tristine Rainerβs Apprenticed to Venus stories her deep friendship, for good or ill, with a pivotal historical figure
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