Gloria Vanderbilt's Obsession
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Obsession: An Erotic Tale
Gloria Vanderbilt was once one of the most famous women in the world. The Vanderbilt’s are a family of old money, members of what was once known as the 400. But that was back in the earlier part of the century when being a debutant, socialite - the daughter of a family with old money - had cachet that has since been lost to pop singers, movie stars and serial killers.
Indeed back in the 1970s Vanderbilt sought fresh fame by giving her name to a line of jeans.
Now Gloria Vanderbilt has written a novel of a women who learns of her dead husband’s involvement with a professional dominatrix, Obsession.
The sexually explicit book, which is to be published in June, has already sent shock waves through the reserved upper echelons of New York society after passages were leaked to a New York tabloid. The leaks showed that Vanderbilt’s prose spares no one’s blushes in its explicit descriptions of kinky sex. Andrea Peyser, a columnist at the New York Post who got hold of the 143-page tome, breathlessly called it “pure, elegant, unadulterated smut” - before reassuring readers that the book was light enough to be “easily read with one hand”.
Socialite, 85, shocks New York with sex novel
Summary of Obsession:
From Gloria Vanderbilt comes a story of erotic obsession, told in tandem. Priscilla Bingham was one half of the perfect elite New York couple until her beloved husband P.J. Talbot unexpectedly died in the middle of their tenth wedding anniversary celebration. Years later, Pris stumbles upon a collection of letters among Talbot’s papers. There - on the most exquisite paper, in the most exquisite detail - is Pris’ undoing. The letters are from Talbot’s ‘Queen Bea’, his treasured mistress/dominatrix who ‘organizes his erotica’ and has spared no detail of it (or her disdain for ‘Wife’) in her correspondence. From the moment she discovers Bea, Pris is obsessed with her, with Talbot, with their sex. And her obsession must be satiated.
Will ProDommes be among Obsession’s first buyers: hoping for a flattering presentation of their profession?
Will Obsession’s descriptions of consensual sadomasochistic sex reinforce all the clichés and stereotypes the American public has about BDSM?
