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Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin

Apprenticed to Venus : my secret life with Anaïs Nin

Book 2017

"I first met Anais in 1962 at her Village apartment, when I was an eighteen-year-old virgin." And so begins Tristine Rainer's years as Anais Nin's accomplice, keeping Nin's confidences-including that of her bigamy-even after Nin's death and the passing of her husbands, until now. Apprenticed to Venus charts Rainer's coming of age under the guidance of Anais Nin: lover to Henry Miller, Parisian diarist, author of the erotic bestseller Delta of V...