Damage

I must have a thing for British people doing light S & M, but this book sends me- and I'm not the only one. Louis Malle made the film shortly after publication, and Netflix did a campy remake (retitled Obsession and replete with some of the most demented masked sex since the Oberlin College Halloween party I attended in 2005...) The story of an upstanding family man who embarks on an affair with his son's lover, I celebrate this book because the female romantic lead is ice fucking cold. Instead, the simp is the man who has exploded his life for a woman to whom love is but a game.