Rosenfeld
“Combustive.” -Esquire ¿ “This novel should come with an X rating.” -Los Angeles Times ¿ “All intensity and desire...will have you turning the pages as fast as you can.” -Chicago Review of Books ¿ “A new spin on forbidden lust.” -Debutiful

For readers of Luster, All Fours, and Vladimir: a provocative, sexy, and unflinchingly candid novel about a white-hot relationship and the two complicated people who emerge from it transformed.

Noa Simon is a thirty-six-year-old filmmaker who knows what she wants, and when she meets Teddy Rosenfeld, an antagonistic, older CEO, she goes for the jugular. An electrifying encounter in a bathroom stall after their first meeting only serves to whet Noa's appetite, and despite Teddy's subsequent rejections, she is exhilarated by the challenge-and by her own insatiability. In her first power play, she takes a job at his office, setting up a battle of wills that Teddy proves unable to resist. Their ravenous, volatile romance will ultimately unearth difficult secrets from both of their pasts and finally force Noa to reckon with her deepest desires and most destructive impulses.

Written with visceral intensity and voyeuristic precision, Rosenfeld is an unputdownable story of sexual abandon that titillates and interrogates in equal measure.
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Rosenfeld
“Combustive.” -Esquire ¿ “This novel should come with an X rating.” -Los Angeles Times ¿ “All intensity and desire...will have you turning the pages as fast as you can.” -Chicago Review of Books ¿ “A new spin on forbidden lust.” -Debutiful

For readers of Luster, All Fours, and Vladimir: a provocative, sexy, and unflinchingly candid novel about a white-hot relationship and the two complicated people who emerge from it transformed.

Noa Simon is a thirty-six-year-old filmmaker who knows what she wants, and when she meets Teddy Rosenfeld, an antagonistic, older CEO, she goes for the jugular. An electrifying encounter in a bathroom stall after their first meeting only serves to whet Noa's appetite, and despite Teddy's subsequent rejections, she is exhilarated by the challenge-and by her own insatiability. In her first power play, she takes a job at his office, setting up a battle of wills that Teddy proves unable to resist. Their ravenous, volatile romance will ultimately unearth difficult secrets from both of their pasts and finally force Noa to reckon with her deepest desires and most destructive impulses.

Written with visceral intensity and voyeuristic precision, Rosenfeld is an unputdownable story of sexual abandon that titillates and interrogates in equal measure.
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Rosenfeld

Rosenfeld

by Maya Kessler

Narrated by Rose Dioro

Unabridged — 14 hours, 27 minutes

Rosenfeld

Rosenfeld

by Maya Kessler

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“Combustive.” -Esquire ¿ “This novel should come with an X rating.” -Los Angeles Times ¿ “All intensity and desire...will have you turning the pages as fast as you can.” -Chicago Review of Books ¿ “A new spin on forbidden lust.” -Debutiful

For readers of Luster, All Fours, and Vladimir: a provocative, sexy, and unflinchingly candid novel about a white-hot relationship and the two complicated people who emerge from it transformed.

Noa Simon is a thirty-six-year-old filmmaker who knows what she wants, and when she meets Teddy Rosenfeld, an antagonistic, older CEO, she goes for the jugular. An electrifying encounter in a bathroom stall after their first meeting only serves to whet Noa's appetite, and despite Teddy's subsequent rejections, she is exhilarated by the challenge-and by her own insatiability. In her first power play, she takes a job at his office, setting up a battle of wills that Teddy proves unable to resist. Their ravenous, volatile romance will ultimately unearth difficult secrets from both of their pasts and finally force Noa to reckon with her deepest desires and most destructive impulses.

Written with visceral intensity and voyeuristic precision, Rosenfeld is an unputdownable story of sexual abandon that titillates and interrogates in equal measure.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Fans of 'Sex and the City,' Raven Leilani’s Luster, and Coco Mellor’s Cleopatra and Frankenstein."—The Millions

“Raw… the characters come alive during the sex scenes, their desire for each other radiating off the page.”—Publishers Weekly

“An erotic obsession [that] becomes all-consuming… X-rated.”—Kirkus Reviews

"A confidently written, graphic and enthralling book.” Kveller

“A romantic novel on the verge of erotic which cleverly plays with the genre’s formulas.”—Calcalist

“Kessler’s debut novel is an erotic romance with twists, humor and sophistication that doesn't follow the rules – neither literary rules, nor the new laws of relationships."—Haaretz

Rosenfeld manages to say meaningful things about sex and literature and creativity and men and women and power and dominance – precisely because it doesn’t preoccupy itself with notions, but rather with the basic, primal literary materials: characters, conflict, and plot. It manages to rattle its readers so intensively because it candidly touches upon the stories that all of us have told ourselves at one point or another, and because it depicts the dynamics of obsessive love so realistically."--Literati

Kirkus Reviews

2024-08-17
An erotic obsession becomes all-consuming for a female Israeli filmmaker.

Kessler's debut is an X-rated deep dive into the overwhelming fascination of a 36-year-old narrator named Noa Simon with a "fat man dressed in a white shirt—or, on second glance, pink—one button excessively undone, exposing a hint of his tanned chest." This is Teddy Rosenfeld, whom Noa meets at a wedding. He and his business partner, Richard Harrington, are so impressed with a video Noa has made as part of the entertainment that they suggest she come work for them at their marine biotech firm. As the wedding reception progresses, Noa and Teddy smoke cigarettes together, go to the bathroom and pee together, and flirt with each other almost violently, though Teddy stops Noa's game far short of what she's hoping for. As they part, Noa sends a final salvo: "There's no woman in this world, in your entire life, who's wanted you as much as I want you." Over the next almost-400 pages, the force of Noa's desire will generate a ferocious sexual affair, conducted as she becomes an employee of Delmar Bio Solutions and gradually overcomes Teddy's resistance, increasingly involving herself in his complicated personal life, which includes multiple children and ex-wives. Noa is a wild, angry, difficult woman; Teddy is a big, sexy mensch women are crazy for; and Kessler portrays their relationship, their conversations, their sex, and their arguments with abandon—behind Noa's obsession with Teddy is Kessler's obsession with both of them. As the drama goes on and on, digging toward the aspects of their lives that the couple are withholding from each other—in Noa's case, her estrangement from her mother; in Teddy's, a "situation" with his second wife—the experience of reading it is a bit like sex that goes on too long. (Beige. I should paint the ceiling beige.) But obsession is as obsession does.

An unruly addition to the literature of passion that might have worked better as a novella.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940191449777
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 11/19/2024
Edition description: Unabridged
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