Smooth Hard

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Meet Alexandro aka Alec the lover the gigolo the rough-edged scoundrel who sanded and polished himself into the smooth hard object of everyone's fascination-most of all Emily's. His daughter's.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>As Alec lies dying in a Paris hospital of what will come to be known as AIDS Emily tries on and inherits his cape of seduction and trade. </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Smooth Hard</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> follows their separate converging paths of curiosity and deception across a generation through the light of self-discovery and into the dark shadows.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Fiction starts like a poem-with an urgent emotion idea truth or inspiration.</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> L. I. ter Meulen has found her novel's beginnings in </span><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>issues of lust desire and promiscuity that may or may not be coupled with love and affection. Often stories focused on sex and eroticism feature a narrowly defined sexual theme acted out by one-dimensional characters. </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Smooth Hard</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> introduces a tapestry of characters whose exploits explorations and experimentation with love and sensuality intersect in surprising ways.</span></p>