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Dark Desires and the Others

New York Notebooks

by Luisa Valenzuela and Susan E. Clark

Paperback, 266 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $15.95 |

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Luisa Valenzuela is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including Cambio de armas and Cola de lagartija. Dalkey Archive Press hide caption

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Sex, Submission And 'Dark Desires'

May 18, 2011 • Do powerful women tend to be failures at love? South American novelist Luisa Valenzuela reflects on this and other mysteries in a sometimes raunchy, but always candid, new memoir.