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When Lucy, a sexually frustrated young widow, receives a mysterious plane ticket to Portugal, she embarks on a path of erotic abandon. Enticed by a debauched Englishwoman and her Portuguese husband, Lucy sheds her moral defenses like a serpent. Her descent into depravity escalates through narcotic abuse, Satanic worship, and sadomasochistic practices under the guidance of the Sade‑like albino cult leader Bartolomeo. In his secluded villa—a shrine of pornographic art and literature—Lucy’s ego disintegrates, and she confronts the ultimate snake pit, a symbolic plunge into uncontrolled sexual mania and primal power.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Melanie Desmoulins
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