The Limits of Pleasure

Literature & Fiction

Jaffe, Daniel M.

World Literature

Independently published

Even during scorching sexual encounters with strangers in public parks and gay baths, Dave Miller is haunted by images - some perverse, some downright homey - of his dead family. In two intertwining chronologies, this remarkable novel follows Dave, a 40-year-old gay Jewish man who was raised by his Orthodox, Holocaust-survivor grandmother. From the cruising spots of Boston to the gay tourist scene in Amsterdam, Dave trysts dangerously with every available man.The Limits of Pleasure is one man's journey into the darkest recesses of his own tortured psyche - will he find redemption at the journey's end?

Harrington Park Pr

<p>Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. Jewish Studies. Even during scorching sexual encounters with strangers in public parks and gay baths, Dave Miller is haunted by images-some perverse, some downright homey-of his dead family. In two intertwined chronologies, this remarkable novel follows Dave, a 40-year-old Jewish man who was raised by his Orthodox, Holocaust-survivor grandmother. From the cruising spots of Boston to the gay tourist scene in Amsterdam, Dave trysts dangerously with every available man. "We've heard of survivors' guilt, but Daniel Jaffe brings us a visceral understanding of its less understood concomitant, survivors' rage, in this extraordinarily fearless novel."--Diane Lefer.</p>

Southern Tier Editions/Haworth Press

<p>In this newest story collection from award-winning writer, Daniel M. Jaffe, red-blooded American men make mischief while vacationing abroad. They encounter a serial killer in a Munich bathhouse, a gay Holocaust ghost in Prague, a shape-shifting seductress in Mexico City, a desperate prostitute in Seville, a closeted Catholic school administrator in Dublin, and many others. These stories will transport, titillate, intrigue, and tug at your heartstrings.</p>

Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love

United States

Rattling Good Yarns Press

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