{"product_id":"spanking-the-maid-paperback","title":"Spanking the Maid - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Coover\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis spellbinding, impeccable novel tells the story of a master, his maid, and the irresistible ritual that binds them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach morning, the maid arrives in the master's bedroom with her cleaning paraphernalia, hoping to make this day's round of work the perfect one. Each morning, the master awakes from a half-remembered but recurring dream of knowledge and chastisement\"the residue of which the maid, to her horror, finds each morning in his bed. And each day, the master can only notice the maid's failures and so must, in obedience to his 'manual,\" administer her punishment, assuring her that it is an obligation to an ideal of a higher order that compels him, an obscure compulsion from which neither, seemingly, can escape.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten early in Robert Coover's illustrious career, included in Harold Bloom's \u003cem\u003eThe Western Canon\u003c\/em\u003e, and named by Daphne Merkin in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e as one of her \"favorite\" S\/M books, \u003cem\u003eSpanking the Maid\u003c\/em\u003e is a spare, tantalizing, perfect book by an American master.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.32 x 8.24 x 5.62 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 18, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42691175055423,"sku":"9780802135407","price":16.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/27e448d66070ac79e7e437922fb4ffa4.webp?v=1764991242","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/spanking-the-maid-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}