Lucretia Stewart

"Travel, like sex, is the search for the unknown. What, after all, could be more unknown than a sexual experience in a strange land, or with a stranger? This question, or preoccupation, informs much of the most insightful and eloquent travel writing we have. Major writers - from Byron to Casanova, from Gustave Flaubert to Graham Greene, Henry Miller to Andre Gide, and from Christopher Isherwood to Isabelle Eberhardt - experimented sexually when traveling, often finding themselves willing and able to surrender to the moment in a way they could not at home. In the pursuit of pleasure or adventure, or simply another kind of experience, these writers expanded their knowledge of the countries and societies in which they found chemselves. Sometimes they fell in love, sometimes not, but their erotic encounters colored their perceptions of abroad forever."--BOOK JACKET.

It's the 70's and for Jane Teller Sidley, making love is both an escape and a journey. Tender twenty-year-old Jane is wise beyond her years because in that short span of time she has picked up one important trait: she is absolutely shameless. But she has everything else -- money, breeding, a tight young body, brains, and, well, experience. She has lots of experience. She's the type of girl out to try on the world just to see how it fits. And she's willing to let almost anyone try her on for size, too. For instance, there's her college professor who expands her mind and her body, the football player who enjoys letting her score and the hot-to-trot stud who coincidentally used to be the ex-lover of her nymphomaniac mother. Will Jane ever discover the difference between making love and finding love? Find out in this searching novel by the author of "Seventh Ave." and "The Madonna Complex".