Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary by Lunch, Lydia - 1997

London: Creation Books, 1997 Paradoxia contains frank and often shocking confessions of promiscuous sexual behaviour among the low life of the New York punk scene of the 1970s. Lydia Lunch relays in explicit sexual detail a predator's diary, revealing the true psychic repercussions of her sexual misadventures. Bound with red silk marker ribbon. Introduction by Hubert Selby Jr. "About the Author" by Chris Bohn. 'Spewing vitriol, violence, humour, insanity and sex, sex, sex on every single page - and naming names - Paradoxia is a bizarre medical textbook of the soul.' - Neon. 'This confessional is both gripping in its honesty, and an erotic source for voyeurs everywhere.' - Juxtapoz. Sickening, saddening, erotic (in a very twisted way) and maddening, this is a book you will never forget. Paradoxia, a loose autobiography, in which she documented her early life, sexual history, substance abuse and mental health problems. Time Out New York gave it a favorable review, while Bookslut ambiguously concluded "a reprisal of greatest hits from male nihilists, sexual adventurers and chroniclers of deviance." From Chapter 1: "I'd stalk bars, clubs, bookstores, public parks and the Emergency Room. Seeking in lost men a place to lose myself. Searching for a pocket of weakness. Looking for the 'sweet spot', a small tear in the psychic fabric to feast upon. To hide inside. A place to disappear in, manifesting myself in a multiplicity of personalities which all shared the same goal. To trick the next john into relinquishing his moral, financial, spiritual or physical guard, so that no matter what the outcome, I won. I got what I wanted. Whether it was money, conversation, drama - or sex." "Great emphasis is put on lurid descriptions of sexual acts", "Sickening, saddening, erotic (in a very twisted way) and maddening, this is a book you will never forget." No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. Hardcover. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.