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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
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an
errand to Anaïs Nin’s West Village apartment. The chance
meeting would change the course of her life and begin her
years as Anaïs’s accomplice, keeping her mentor’s
confidences―including that of her bigamy―even after Anaïs
Nin’s 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 Anaïs 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 Anaïs’s inner circle,
implicated in the mysterious author’s daring
intrigues―while simultaneously finding her own path
through love, lust, and loss. In what Kirkus calls a
“spicy and saucy hybrid of memoir and novel,” Apprenticed
to Venus brings to life a seductive and entertaining
character ―the pioneer whose mantra was, “A woman has as
much right to pleasure as a man!” An intimate look at the intricacies―and risks―of the
female mentor-protégé relationship, Tristine Rainer’s
Apprenticed to Venus stories her deep friendship, for
good or ill, with a pivotal historical figure
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