Apprenticed to Venus - Tristine Rainer

A Revealing Look at the Mentorshipand Manipulationof Anas Nin In 1962, eighteen-year-old Tristine Rainer was sent on an errand to Anas Nin's West Village apartment. The chance meeting would change the course of her life and begin her years as Anas's accomplice, keeping her mentor's confidencesincluding that of her bigamyeven after Anas Nin's death and the passing of her husbands, until now. Set in the underground literary worlds of Manhattan and Los Angeles during the sixties and seventies, Tristine charts her coming of age under the guidance of the infamous Anas Nin: author of the erotic bestseller Delta of Venus, lover to Henry Miller, Parisian diarist, and feminist icon of the sexual revolution. As an inexperienced college-bound girl from the San Fernando Valley, Tristine was dazzled by the sophisticated bohemian author and sought her instruction in becoming a woman. Tristine became a fixture of Anas's inner circle, implicated in the mysterious author's daring intrigueswhile simultaneously finding her own path through love, lust, and loss. From personal memories to dramatized scenarios based on Anas's revelations to the author, Apprenticed to Venus blurs the lines between novel and memoir to bring to life a seductive and entertaining characterthe pioneer whose mantra was, "A woman has as much right to pleasure as a man!".