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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-24-03 04:10 AM
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NY Times: A Teenager Takes Italy by Storm, With Her Tale of Lust
A Teenager Takes Italy by Storm, With Her Tale of Lust

ROME, Dec. 23 — Edit the story just a bit, and it becomes a heartwarming tale of early ambition and unpredictable success.

A teenage girl from a nowhere town pours her heart into prose. A risk-taking publisher turns that prose into a book. It outsells almost everything else in Italy, making its author famous.

That is an accurate enough account of what has happened to Melissa Panarello, but not a full one. It omits a few crucial details, starting with her subject matter: the erotic adventures of a sexually ravenous girl who caroms between younger and older men, homosexuality and sadomasochism.

It also fails to note that Miss Panarello and her publisher are marketing her book as thinly veiled autobiography. She claims that everything in it mirrors her experiences as a 15- and 16-year-old in a suburb of the small Sicilian city of Catania.

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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-24-03 10:52 AM
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1. sex sells...n/t
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