Ramona Drottoveo, an albino with unusual looks, is a chambermaid at a lush Italian estate, La Casa. Further distinguished by the intoxicating scent she exudes, Ramona effortlessly bewitches all men, who are driven into an erotic frenzy each time they inhale her aroma. Ramona -- haughty and misguided -- eagerly satisfies their inexhaustible lust, while the women at the estate scold and despise her.
Ramona's life changes when she marries a sweet beekeeper, a victim of her enchantment. But the marriage doesn't last long: the beekeeper dies after discovering his bride with a new lover on their wedding day. When the beekeeper's body disappears, the superstitious villagers blame Ramona and her lover and exile the couple from the estate to the neighboring city of Naples. The story follows Ramona through her tragicomic misadventures in Naples, where her life is transformed once again. by the birth of an unwanted daughter, Blandina, who "steals" Ramona's scent, depriving her mother of her only asset in life. No longer able to seduce men into blind submission, Ramona returns humbly to La Casa to an unexpected welcome -- and revenge.
A hilarious and naughty celebration of the senses and the strange places they can lead us, Nectar is a wildly entertaining fable on the mystery and cruelty of sexual attraction and the frivolous nature of divine justice.
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Lily Prior is the author of La Cucina, Ardor, and Nectar and she divides her time between London and Italy.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Gift Giving quality . 248 pages . " Deep into an Italian landscape of Once Upon A Time, Lilly Prior has conjured - yes, conjured, for Nectar is magic - a novel as enchanting as it is enchanted . Cast out of paradise, Ramona Drottoveo, a hilariously unpleasant and deliciously debauched albino, travels the path paved with sin back to her garden of earthly delights . This is no morality tale . Rather, it is intelligent, sexy, sidesplittingly funny, and like nothing else . Nectar is wonderful." - Binnie Kirshenbaum, author of Hester Among the Ruins . Called a ' technicolor fairytale ' . this romp is ribald and sexual and grotesque and often hilariously funny . Lily pulls no punches . and her characters have the feel of an old-fashioned carnival . " Nectar . A Novel of Temptation " . by Lily Prior . published by Ecco, New York 2002 . Hardcover book in Dustjacket. Attractive, clean, unmarked and collectible!. Seller Inventory # 000978
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