18 Must-Read Books in March 2012
From a favorite novelist's memoir to gripping new supernatural fiction, March has the great reads you need to get through the last blast of winter.
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History of a Pleasure Seeker
By Richard Mason
288 pages;
Knopf
South African Richard Mason is the rare novelist who can write a very sexy book that never quite turns prurient. His History of a Pleasure Seeker (Knopf) is the sophisticated tale of a handsome Dutchman who signs on as a tutor for the son of a wealthy family in 1907 but ends up doing his best ministering to his charge's sex-starved mother. Lives change when his dalliance is discovered, but not in the ways you might think, thanks to Mason's complex, ultimately decent characters. This book about pleasure is a provocative joy.
— Sara Nelson
Published 02/23/2012
