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SCOTT SPENCER BESTSELLING AUTHOR OR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A SHIP MADE OF PAPER i ilT^^fcfi ^ICf NOVEL A USA $24.95 Canada $26.95 HAILED AS "THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN MASTER OF THE LOVE STORY" (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY), BESTSELLING AUTHOR SCOTT SPENCER TAKES US ON A PSYCHO- LOGICALLY INTENSE—AND BRILLIANTLY — FUNNY JOURNEY INSIDE THE WORLD OF INTERNATIONAL SEX TOURISM. AveryJankowsky isathirty-seven-year-old Manhattan writer scraping by on freelance assignments. Despite his lackofambition,andverymuchtohisown surprise, he has won the affections of Deirdre, a Columbia grad student many years his junior. But when Deirdre tells him that she has been having an affair, Avery's world is shattered. Beside himselfwithjealousyand grief, Averyheads across town to meet his uncle Ezra for their monthly lunch date. Ezra senses his nephew'sfragileemotional state and makes a startling proposition: Avery should use his tickets to an all-expenses-paid international sex tour. Sensing a white-hot book idea (and a chance toget backat Deirdre), Averyagreestogoasan under- coverjournalist. As the tour bounces from one Nordic country to — another, Avery and his fellow travelers most ofthem — wealthy and accomplished descend everdeeper into a blinding world that is equal parts hilarity and night- mare, until Avery suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the one person he never expected to see. A two-time National Book Award finalist, Spencer has already given us some of the most remarkable tales of love and passion in contemporary American fiction. Willing is at once a lighter and a darker per- formance, a startling tour de force that explores the limits of male restraint, the intoxications of privilege, the maddening dangers of freedom, and the knock- down, drag-out fight between our instincts and our better natures. 0308 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/willingspenOOspen Willing ALSO BY SCOTT SPENCER Fiction A ShipMadeofPaper TheRichMan's Table Men in Black SecretAnniversaries WakingtheDead EndlessLove Preservation Hall LastNight at theBrain Thieves'Hall Scott Spencer k - Willin ecc« An ImprintofHarperCollinsPub/zshers willing. Copyright© 2008 byScottSpencer.All rights reserved. Printedin the United States ofAmerica. No partofthisbookmaybe used orreproduced in anymannerwhatsoeverwithoutwritten permission exceptin the case ofbrief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address HarperCollinsPublishers, 10East53rdStreet, NewYork,NY10022. HarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information, please write: Special Markets Department, HarperCollinsPublishers, 10East53rdStreet, NewYork,NY10022. FIRSTEDITION DesignedbyKateNichols LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-Publication Data Spencer, Scott. — Willing/ ScottSpencer. 1sted. p. cm. ISBN: 978-0-06-076015-1 I. Title. PS3569.P455W56 2008 813'.54—dc22 2007028230 987654321 08 09 10 11 12 id/rrd 10 to my mother
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