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Book SynopsisWho Wrote the Book of Love? is acclaimed novelist Lee Siegel's comedic chronicle of the sexual life of an American boy in Southern California in the 1950s. Starting at the beginning of the decade, in the year that Stalin announced that the Soviet Union had developed an atomic bomb, the book opens with a child's first memory of himself. Closing at the end of the decade, when Pat Boone's guide to dating, 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, topped the bestseller list, the book culminates just moments before the boy experiences for the first time what he had learned from a book read to him by his mother was called coitus or sexual intercourse or sometimes, less formally, just making love. Between the initial overwhelmingly erotic recollection and the final climactic moment, all is sex - beguiling and intractable, naughty and sweet. Who Wrote the Book of Love? is about the subversive sexual imaginations of children. And, as such, it is about the origins of love. Vignettes from the author's childhood
Trade Review"There's nothing sexier than sex. There's nothing more important than sex. And, of course, there's nothing funnier than sex. Who Wrote the Book of Love? will make you remember just how raunchy you were as a kid. And how maybe you should try to be that nasty again. I Love Lee Siegel but not in that way... okay, you dragged it out of me, maybe I do love him in that way." - Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller"
