A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin [1978 PAPERBACK]

A Spy in the House of Love by Anaïs Nin

7th PAPERBACK PRINTING [1978] BANTAM BOOKS

Excellent reading copy.  Small spot of mild water damage to lower edge of front cover and some sticker ghosting on back.  Inside is unread and reads as new. 

Although Anais Nin found in her diaries a profound mode of self-creation and confession, she could not reveal this intimate record of her own experiences during her lifetime. Instead, she turned to fiction, where her stories and novels became artistic "distillations" of her secret diaries.

A Spy in the House of Love, whose heroine Sabina is deeply divided between her drive for artistic and sexual expression, on the one hand, and social restrictions and self-created inhibitions, on the other, echoed Nin's personal struggle with sex, love, and emotional fragmentation. Written when Nin's own life was taut with conflicting loyalties, her protagonist Sabina repeatedly asks herself, can one indulge in one's sensual restlessness, the fantasies, the relentless need for adventure without devastating consequences?