Synopsis
Catherine Millet's best-selling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark book — a portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. Described as "eloquent, graphic — and sometimes even poignant" by Newsweek, and as "[perhaps] one of the most erotic books ever written" by Playboy, it drew international attention for its audacity, and the apparently superhuman sangfroid required of Millet and her partner, Jacques Henric, with whom she had an extremely public and active open relationship. Now, Millet's follow-up answers the first book's implicit question: How did you avoid jealousy? "I had love at home," Millet explains, "I sought only pleasure in the world outside." But one day she discovered a letter in their apartment that made it clear that Jacques was seriously involved with someone else. Jealousy details the crisis provoked by this discovery, and Millet's attempts to reconcile her need for freedom and sexual liberation with the very real heartache that Jacques's infidelity caused. If The Sexual Life of Catherine M. seemed to disregard emotion, Jealousy is its radical complement: the paradoxical confession of a libertine who discovers that love, in any of its forms, can have a dark side.
About Catherine Millet
See more books from this AuthorIn her bestselling memoir (The Sexual Life of Catherine M, 2002), Paris art critic Millet shocked the world with her unapologetically candid descriptions of an extravagant sex life with no boundaries and, seemingly, no consequences.
Dec 01 2009 | Read Full Review of Jealousy: The Other Life of C...(Would this information be a high or a low point for the man in question?) Let’s take a quick look at Henric, this lover-cum-husband of Millet’s — they met in 1972, when she was 24, and married in 1991 — since he is in the central, though dubious, position of being the inspiration for the grand ...
Jan 29 2010 | Read Full Review of Jealousy: The Other Life of C...In 2002, Catherine Millet, editor of the French magazine Art Press, created quite a stir with THE SEXUAL LIFE OF CATHERINE M., in which she revealed that for decades she had been having sexual affairs with men other than her long-term partner, writer and photographer Jacques Henric.
Jan 22 2011 | Read Full Review of Jealousy: The Other Life of C...Catherine Millet reveals the other side of her well-documented sexual liberation: jealousy, self-doubt, personal emptiness...
Jan 29 2010 | Read Full Review of Jealousy: The Other Life of C...Contrary to the persona presented in her first book, Millet seems less a worldly Frenchwoman than a scorned Everywoman.
Mar 14 2010 | Read Full Review of Jealousy: The Other Life of C...The French free spirit (whose last book was a memoir of her promiscuity) experiences betrayal and discovers—surprise!—that it hurts.
| Read Full Review of Jealousy: The Other Life of C...Catherine Millet is of course, the woman behind the now-infamous, semi-autobiographical The Sexual Life of Catherine M.
Apr 22 2010 | Read Full Review of Jealousy: The Other Life of C...An aggregated and normalized score based on 6 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes