Author Description

Product Description<br/><br/><br/>Originally published in an abridged version as<br/>Stasi Slut (Masquerade Books, 1992),<br/>The East is Black is the best-known of Len Bracken's sex-political novels. Set in Berlin at the time of the Reunification, it describes a succession of disillusionments with ideologies - from the state communist regime in East Berlin to the consumer society of the West, as well as the growing neo-fascist movement which functioned as the opposition - through the story of an eighteen-year-old woman growing into her sexual and political maturity and confidence. It is a new type of erotic pulp novel that plays with potentials explored by writers such as Milan Kundera, describing the tensions between desire and ideology and affirming the inherently political and subversive nature of a hedonisitic stance toward life.<br/><br/><br/>Review<br/><br/><br/>"a new type of erotic novel... where social and sexual consciousness are uninhibited and integrated..." --<br/>G.J. Krupey, Eidos magazine<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Len Bracken lives in Washington, DC. In addition to his novels he is the author of<br/>Shadow Government: 9-11 and State Terror, a biography of Guy Debord,<br/>Guy Debord : Revolutionary (Feral House, 1997), and a book of essays,<br/>The Arch Conspirator (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1999). His other novels include<br/>Freeplay and <br/>Snitch Jacket (also available through amazon.com).