{"product_id":"spy-in-the-house-of-love-by-anais-nin","title":"'a spy in the house of love' by Anaïs Nin","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"344\" data-end=\"687\"\u003eOne of Anaïs Nin’s central novels, \u003cem data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"419\"\u003eA Spy in the House of Love\u003c\/em\u003e follows Sabina, a woman moving through marriage, affairs, fantasy, performance, and confession with equal parts hunger and dread. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"689\" data-end=\"1199\"\u003eWhat makes the book last is that Nin doesn’t treat erotic life as scandal or ornament. She treats it as atmosphere, method, self-invention, and danger. Sabina’s restlessness is sexual, obviously, but also artistic and metaphysical; she wants intensity without surrender, freedom without consequence, and the novel knows that bargain never holds. Strange, elegant, feverish, and unusually interior, it sits somewhere between confession, modernist dream, and erotic novella.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeter Owen, London. First British Commonwealth edition, 1971. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardback with illustrations by Ian Hugo. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginally published in 1954; this Peter Owen edition carries a later Commonwealth first statement. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGood condition dust jacket, great condition inside. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44283077623891,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-29T113856.584.png?v=1774744752","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/spy-in-the-house-of-love-by-anais-nin","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}