Elizabeth McNeill

»Första gången vi låg med varann höll han fast mina händer ovanför huvudet på mig. Jag tyckte om det. Jag tyckte om honom. Han var lynnig på ett sätt jag tyckte var romantiskt; han var rolig, intelligent, intressant att tala med och han kunde få mig att njuta.«

Elizabeth McNeill har en framstående position på ett stort företag när hon inleder en affär med en man hon träffat. Deras sexuella möten vilar på ett mönster av dominans, och i takt med att deras relation utvecklas spelar de ut allt farligare och mer komplexa sadomasochistiska variationer.
Till sist har Elizabeth gett upp all kontroll över sin kropp och sitt psyke. Med en kylig distans som ger skildringarna en förhöjd intensitet vecklar Elizabeth McNeill skickligt ut sin berättelse och bjuder in läsaren i en hypnotisk, uppslukande värld.
Nio & en halv vecka är en modern erotisk klassiker, i översättning av Katarina Norén.

ELIZABETH MCNEILL är en pseudonym för författaren och journalisten Ingeborg Day [1940-2011], som föddes i Österrike men levde större delen av sitt liv i USA. Hon arbetade bland annat som redaktör för tidskriften Ms. och det var under den perioden händelserna som beskrivs i Nio & en halv vecka [1978] utspelade sig. 1986 gjordes en filmatisering av boken med Kim Basinger och Mickey Rourke i huvudrollerna.

TAIRONIAN GOLD is an adventure/suspense story. Farrine Munroe, a young Spanish teacher from Kansas, goes to Colombia to claim the coffee farm, inherited from her aunt, who died there mysteriously. On the way up the Sierra Nevada mountains the taxi driver, fearing landslides, abandons her in a thunder storm. Handsome Spanish-speaking Danilo Franco rescues her. She is attracted to him, but suspicious of his motives. Attempts on her life begin the day after she arrives at the coffee farm, La Felicidad. Someone wants her dead. Is it the caretaker's son, Victor, who believes the farm is his? The guerrillas, who kill farmers and take their land? Grave robbers, who loot Taironian gold on her property? Arms smugglers? All are frightening possibilities. Farrine finds her aunt's shallow grave. She had been murdered. Victor catches Farrine spying on his meeting with arms smugglers and imprisons her. She escapes and runs to an American neighbor for help, only to find he has been murdered. Danilo saves both Farrine and her farm, reveals his true identity and wins Farrine's trust and love. They head for the airport with Victor in pursuit. In a wild chase Victor catches them as they arrive at an isolated airstrip to board a waiting plane. He opens fire, hits Farrine's foot, but Danilo manages to pull her aboard and the small plane takes off. Destination Danilo's penthouse in Miami with plans to return to La Felicidad.

Considered one of the finest of Canada's early poets, the raw intellect and emotional appeal of Isabella Valancy Crawford's poetry drew author Elizabeth McNeill Galvin on a personal journey that traced Isabella's life which began in Dublin, Ireland, and ended in Toronto, Canada.Isabella emigrated to Canada with her family around the year of 1858. After settling first in Paisley, Ontario, the family later lived in Lakefield and Peterborough. As a young woman, Isabella became fascinated by backwoods life and Indian legends. Following her father's death, she and her mother moved to Toronto where Isabella took on another pioneering role, that of a "modern working woman," by earning meager wages from light verse and "formula fiction" that appeared in Canadian and American newspapers.Not afraid to approach social criticism often deemed the domain of male poets, her poetic sensitivity quivers with imagery and is admired for its evocative portrayal of life in its entirety. Isabella's work symbolizes the emerging of Canadian maturity as its population was shifting from life in the wilderness, to the creation of urban centres such as Toronto."A good sense of the social background of Crawford's life."- Gordon Johnston, Master of Otonabee College at Trent University and Professor of Canadian Literature.