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Rapture.(Brief Article)

The New Yorker

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Rapture, by Susan Minot (Knopf; $18). This novella takes place during a single act of oral sex, wittily reminding us (as did its notorious counterpart, Harold Brodkey's "Innocence") that a lot more thinking goes on between the sheets than is generally acknowledged. Benjamin is a handsome and hapless film director with a moneyed and supportive fiancee; Kay is his former production designer, with whom he had a fling on a shoot in Mexico. After ...

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