Louis Lorraine

A Scorched-Sheets Glimpse of Surburbia in the 1960sWhen Lelia was Spence Hawk's secretary, she went out of her way to satisfy all of his whims and physical desires. But now that they are married, and living in a split-level home in suburbia, she's concentrating on satisfying her own, seemingly insatiable physical needs in this new, free-wheeling society where all the norms are questioned. She made a game of it -- quantity over quality, that was what counted. Spence is enjoying the freedoms too, but is also beginning to feel the price, especially after a no-rules, "trade partners" party shatters everything..." This is] one in a raft of books about suburban life that appeared steadily through the 1950s and 1960s ...] the books can tell us a lot about the preoccupations of midcentury Americans. Most strikingly, they reveal deep and widespread concern over the stability of mental and physical health in the new suburban environment. They] represented not just new places to live but a whole new manner of living, separated by more than physical distance from the big cities and small towns from which their residents hailed. The first suburbanites themselves were well aware of this. Although they felt the optimism of pioneers, they shared in the widespread anxiety that the experiment might not work." Amanda Kolson Hurley, Curbed

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A shocking, passionate story of a bored, scorned wife who trades her experience in love for the unschooled embraces of a teenage boy. Scorching, pulp fiction that's been out of print for 60 years...and is nearly as scandalous today as it was then. It's 1961 in Suburbia, U.S.A. New housing tracts, new shopping centers, and a new morality for lonesome, sex-hungry wives stuck at home while their husbands work in the city. Susan is a loyal "commuter wife" and mother who discovers that her husband is cheating on her. So she seduces a teenage boy, teaching him how to make love to a woman. But soon he is teaching her some new things with his tenderness and passion. She's so caught up in her forbidden affair that she's unaware that her own teen daughter is roaming the manicured, surburban streets, looking for love herself, becoming an easy target for boys who aren't nearly as clean-cut or innocent as they look.