Limits of Pleasure

Even during scorching sexual encounters with strangers in public parks & gay baths, Dave is haunted by images--some perverse, some downright homey--of his dead parents & Holocaust-survivor grandmother. That, combined with his Yankee brashness, Jewish upbringing, & ever-stronger lust for men, lots of men, make up this sexual tourist's mindset. From Boston to Amsterdam, Dave trysts dangerously with any man who will let him. Through two intertwining chronologies, The Limits of Pleasure follows Dave Miller, a 40-year-old gay Jewish man who was raised by his Orthodox grandmother. A year after her death, Dave travels to Amsterdam, the home of Anne Frank, whom Grandma revered; yet Dave, feeling undeserving to confront the suffering that Grandma endured in the concentration camps, cannot bring himself to visit Anne Frank's house. Ultimately, Dave must make peace with the memories of his dead family & come to terms with his obsessive sexual desires. The Limits of Pleasure is Dave's journey into the darkest recesses of his psyche--will he find redemption at his journey's end?Jaffe, Daniel M. is the author of 'Limits of Pleasure' with ISBN 9781560233732 and ISBN 1560233737.