Bliss (e-book) (used book) | Elizabeth Gundy | bookbook.eu

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"A haunting love story: This tale of the love affair between a lonely spinster college professor and a campus maintenance man is heartbreaking, achingly beautiful, and tastefully erotic. The author’s imagery evokes the tragic story of a once-in-a-lifetime love that is doomed from the start." *****Amazon.com

Shy and plain, Leona writes books on 17th Century love poetry, but her own experience of love is meager. Her last affair, if you can call it that, was nine years ago.

Into her barren world of manuscripts walks Bliss.

He’s one step from illiterate, a gap-toothed bumpkin, a hillbilly. And married.

He's also physically beautiful, and he doesn't seem to know that Leona isn’t.

"His lips searched hers; her answer was urgent. She reveled in her need. Nine years…How could I have gone so long? It's a wonder I didn't rape the janitor…But I am raping the janitor. Soft kisses were pressed to her breast, and in the rush of her pleasure, she felt his tenderness. She hadn't waited nine years, she realized. She'd waited all her life."

Originally compared to Edith Wharton's ETHAN FROME and D.H. Lawrence's LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER, Bliss was adapted into a movie starring Lynn Redgrave.