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The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society

The Binding Chair or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society

2001 ·
·3.48·1,415 Ratings ·336 Pages
“ You have survived, EVERY SINGLE bad day so far. ” ― Anonymous
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    1998·
    ·3.42·198 Ratings
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    ·3.27·133 Ratings
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    ·3.09·337 Ratings
    Will has a good sex life–with the woman he married. So why then is he increasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies that, were they to break out of his imagination and into the real world, have the power to destroy not only his family but his career?
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    1995·
    ·3.8·214 Ratings
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    1998·
    ·3.45·3,352 Ratings
    We meet at airports. We meet in cities where we've never been before. We meet where no one will recognize us. A "man of God" is how someone described my father to me. I don 't remember who. Not my mother. I'm young enough that I take the words to mean he
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