My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man
My Mother is a unique bildungsroman of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.—Publishers Weekly
My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man comprises three short pieces of erotic …
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