{"product_id":"the-bedtrick-wendy-doniger-9780226156439","title":"The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade","description":"\"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger.\" Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the \"bedtrick,\" or what it means to wake up with a stranger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bedtrick\u003c\/i\u003e brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest items in the \u003ci\u003eWeekly World News\u003c\/i\u003e, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people get into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film \u003ci\u003eThe Crying Game\u003c\/i\u003e was retitled \u003ci\u003eOh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis\u003c\/i\u003e. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. Funny, sexy, and engaging, \u003ci\u003eThe Bedtrick\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e your lover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Doniger seduces the reader with her casual erudition, tempering the dizzying accumulation of evidence with wry asides.\"--Edward Rothstein, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Doniger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226156435\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226156439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 6.90w x 1.34d","brand":"Wendy Doniger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46825734471935,"sku":"9780226156439","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e498ae7a-8e3f-4bd7-892e-2833f350e5a0.jpg?v=1746073473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bedtrick-wendy-doniger-9780226156439","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}