Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell (English Edition) Kindle电子书

“Offers an arresting mix of diaristic experiences with her lover . . . and heady reflections from feminist thinkers like Susan Sontag and Virginia Woolf. A genre-busting nonfiction account that reads like poetry, revels in ambiguity, and intentionally defies definition, the book explores the slippery emotions of sex in fiery, collage-like scenes intended to reconcile the contradictory ‘metaphors we love by.'” ―O Magazine

“Unconventional, deeply personal . . . often poetic.” ―The New Yorker Page Turner blog

“Angel embraces the impossibility of extricating fact from feeling.” ―Julia Klein, The Boston Globe

“Poetic . . . Sharply truthful, musical, and beautifully patterned . . . An act of cultural resistance, and a book you immediately start to reread.” ―Adam Foulds, author of The Quickening Maze

“Absorbing . . . [A] vigorous testament to a female libido undaunted by the cold shower of self-analysis.” ―Talitha Stevenson, The Guardian

“Ghostly and poetic . . . [A] thinking woman's meditation on sexual desire.” ―Publishers Weekly

“[A] provocative and profoundly personal investigation into female desire . . . It's hard to overestimate the riskiness of these passages, their courage and their exquisite sensuality . . . But the real joy lies in the artfulness with which [Angel] uses these intimate episodes as a way of unwrapping the larger issue of what it means to be a woman, both object and subject of desire . . . Unmastered is a giddily joyful book . . . Days after reading, its images linger in the mind . . . [An] elegant and uplifting journey through the labyrinth of female lust.” ―Olivia Laing, The Observer

“Katherine Angel's Unmastered stayed in my head for weeks after I read it. It's brave, moving, and perfectly structured.” ―Sam Byers, author of Idiopathy

“Unmastered is an intriguing literary and cultural study . . . Erudite and personal . . . The strength of Ms. Angel's writing . . . makes the book seem both universal and intimate at once.” ―The Economist

“Unmastered is one of those totally out-of-the blue, impossible-to-classify, weird and new and wonderful fiction-ish nonfiction books, which happily come along every so often and make you go, ‘Whoa: this is what we need now' . . . A libidinous thrill all of its own.” ―Stuart Hammond, Dazed & Confused magazine

Katherine Angel is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at Warwick University. She has written on sexuality, pornography, and the relationship between culture and desire for The Independent, Prospect, and The Observer, among others. She lives in London.