The delightful and daring English-language debut of French author Herve le Tellier is a series of short, intimately interconnected stories making up a lively users manual to pleasure, relating the various liaisons of couples from Anna and Ben to Yolande and Zach (taking in Chloe and Xavier along the way, as well as twenty others, as you may have guessed), until the criss-crossing of their lives and partners makes up a pattern as intricate as the fresco on the ceiling of a chapel . . . Harkening back to another playful book on an intimate subjectHarry Mathewss Singular PleasuresHerve le Telliers The Sextine Chapel celebrates the wonderful, often random, often excruciating possibilities of sexual intimacy, with something here for just about everyoneand their wife, husband, lover, or passing fancy.