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A Dangerous Liaison: 2One Woman's Journey into a World of Aristocracy, Depravity, and Obsession
by Sheri De Borchgrave
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Dutton Adult (1993-09-01)
ISBN: 0525936378
EAN: 9780525936374
Dewy Decimal #: 973.920922
Hardcover: 304 pages
SKU: V009AFGT
Condition: Used: Very Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
The wife of a Belgian baron recalls her abusive marriage, discussing her husband's obsession with making his wife's body an ideal one and his dark secrets--including insanity, incest, and sexual perversion. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.
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Customer Reviews
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She married him for the lifestyle
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-12-24
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
I have read this book more than once, and do not agree with the one reviewer who states that it is a ludicrous piece of work. I think it's great but...
The former Sheri Heller, now Baroness Sheri de Borchgrave, obviously meant
not to speak about her fears for the breast operation over the telephone because she had an inkling the Baron then would not wish to carry on with the wedding plans. He was correct to accuse her of that. She should never have married him, and then to stay with him after he began his cruel
mistreatment? Come on, people! She really enjoyed that nobel lifestyle!
If she didn't, why did being called Madame la Baronne tickle her? Why did
she go into length about the lofty titles of Belgium, the descriptions of the castles, and the many course meals with fine wines and all that?
Sheri knew what she was doing when she snagged her Baron; it was just very
convenient for her when he died and left her the Baroness for life!
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WOW!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-10-25
Sheri Heller, a beautiful young New Yorker, met a tall, handsome, elegant Belgian on a plane. Soon Baron Jacques de Borchgrave had seduced her and treated her to exotic trips and expensive clothing. She was swept off her feet, but after they married (as is so often the case), her new husband's mask of gentility came off. This is a story of runaway narcissism and sexual deviance. There is a lot detail about some rather untypical sex, so it's not reading for the easily shocked. Sheri de Borchgrave is an intelligent observer of her own life, and the book is fascinating and well-written. I have never read anything like it.
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A captivating, engaging story that just draws you in from beginning to end!
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-12-21
I thought this was an excellent story. I don't recall quite how I stumbled upon this book but I am very glad I did. I also had the pleasure of seeing the Baroness on a talk show telling her story to the world. It is truly a fascinating story of good and evil. When Sheri meets Jacques you are very quickly caught up in their captivating romance. As he wines and dines her, buys her expensive clothes and takes her on exotic vacations this book at first seems like a wonderful romance novel. Then as Sheri falls for Jacques she begins to see a tiny hint of his dark side but she pushes it out of her mind because she thinks its just a difference of his European nobility and her American nature. I think many of us who have been swept off of our feet by Mr Wonderful can often relate to Sheri as she sees a warning sign or two but turned a blind eye because she wanted to believe the best in her prince charming.
After Sheri moves to Belgium to become the Baroness she sees Jacques dark side begin to unveil itself and Sheri finds her self in a world of manic depressive behavior, incest, wild sex parties and mental abuse all of which seems to be covered up by Jacques family. It is entirely a world to which most of us cannot relate but you feel for Sheri as she realizes she is trapped in a marriage in a foreign country with a mentally disturbed person and this hedonistic lifestyle and she doesn't know how to get out. Will Sheri get out, will she be able to 'cure' her husband, what will occur next, just when she thinks she's seen it all she learns something else.
It is a classic story of a rich family who's money and power covers up their mentally ill son and the poor woman who is romanced into the lifestyle and before she realizes it she is trapped and doesn't know how to get out and has no one to help her.
This book will completely draws you in from beginning to end.
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Raves from the New York Times Book Section!!!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-01-11
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
"This year's most fabulous book" -- those were the words of the New York Times Book Section. Quite an accolade... and I also remember the review said that the book was the most fun, the best summer book, and a terrific read. Naturally I was intrigued by such fulsome praise and bought the book -- and I was not disappointed! I think the reviewer above must be a friend of the Baron's family, otherwise one cannot help but get swept away into the beautiful romance and ultimate betrayal of a young, beautiful and innocent girl by the Jekyll/Hyde man that manipulated her.
This book starts like a Harlequin Romance. Young Sheri meets the man of her dreams (and everyone's dreams) on an airplane -- the place your mother told you you would meet great men. She glimpses into the jet-set life-style of this aristocratic person. The story goes on, the romance continues to its fruition ... but then ---
Hey, unlike the person above, I don't want to give anything away. Read this! It's entertaining and there are definitely lessons to be learned. I wish Sheri de Borchgrave well ... she deserves it after what she went through with the Baron!!!!!
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A bad confession.
Rating  (1)
Date: 2002-11-09
4 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
The story of the marriage of the American Sheri Heller and a Belgian nobleman Jacques De Borchgrave.
The problems begin when Sheri doesn't want to undergo the plastic surgery asked by her husband, who wanted a bigger bosom!
This book is a festival of mud-slinging on her ex-husband and his family. They are, for the author, a bunch of lesbian and bisexual cuckolds. She didn't forget to add in the book photographs of the incriminated villains.
How did the author find a publisher for this ludicrous and totally uninteresting story and for the horribly bad porn?
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