The Fermata

Erotic Horror

Author: Nicholson Baker

Having turned phone sex into the subject of the bestseller, Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish “X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay…..Read More

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