Nine and half weeks Author:Elizabeth Mc Neill This is a ;ove so unusual. so passionate, so extreme in its phychology and sexuality that it takes the reader's breath away. Two ordinary, civilized people meet casually, and begin an affair that soon turns into a sado-massochistic experience of freightening intensity, Unlike The story of O, this is not fiction or fantasy; it is a true account... more » of an episode in the lives of a real man and a real woman. From the beginning, their depends on a pattern of domination and humilation. As the affair progresses, they play out evermore dangerous and more elaborate variations on that pattern. By the end, the woman has relinquished all control over her body and mind, Elizabeth McNeill tells this story with beautiful economy, her very coolness of tone makes the sensations she describes, all the more powerful. And she refuses to indulge in interpertation-to do anything other than show the experience.« less