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The Seventh Level: A Sexual Progress
Book by Nichols
269 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1979
About the author
William Nicholson
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William Nicholson was born in 1948, and grew up in Sussex and Gloucestershire. His plays for television include Shadowlands and Life Story , both of which won the BAFTA Best Television Drama award in their year; other award-winners were Sweet As You Are and The March . In 1988 he received the Royal Television Society's Writer's Award. His first play, an adaptation of Shadowlands for the stage, was Evening Standard Best Play of 1990, and went on to a Tony Award winning run on Broadway. He was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay of the film version, which was directed by Richard Attenborough and starred Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger.
Since then he has written more films - Sarafina, Nell, First Knight, Grey Owl , and Gladiator (as co-writer), for which he received a second Oscar nomination. He has written and directed his own film, Firelight ; and three further stage plays, Map of the Heart , Katherine Howard and The Retreat from Moscow , which ran for five months on Broadway and received three Tony Award nominations.
His novel for older children, The Wind Singer, won the Smarties Prize Gold Award on publication in 2000, and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award in 2001. Its sequel, Slaves of the Mastery , was published in May 2001, and the final volume in the trilogy, Firesong , in May 2002. The trilogy has been sold in every major foreign market, from the US to China.
He is now at work on a new sequence of novels for older children, called The Noble Warriors . The first book, Seeker , was published in the UK in September 2005.The second book, Jango, in 2006 and the third book NOMAN, will be published in September 2007.
His novels for adults are The Society of Others (April 2004) and The Trial of True Love (April 2005).
He lives in Sussex with his wife Virginia and their three children.
from williamnicholson.co.uk
William Nicholson was born in 1948, and grew up in Sussex and Gloucestershire. His plays for television include Shadowlands and Life Story , both of which won the BAFTA Best Television Drama award in their year; other award-winners were Sweet As You Are and The March . In 1988 he received the Royal Television Society's Writer's Award. His first play, an adaptation of Shadowlands for the stage, was Evening Standard Best Play of 1990, and went on to a Tony Award winning run on Broadway. He was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay of the film version, which was directed by Richard Attenborough and starred Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger.
Since then he has written more films - Sarafina, Nell, First Knight, Grey Owl , and Gladiator (as co-writer), for which he received a second Oscar nomination. He has written and directed his own film, Firelight ; and three further stage plays, Map of the Heart , Katherine Howard and The Retreat from Moscow , which ran for five months on Broadway and received three Tony Award nominations.
His novel for older children, The Wind Singer, won the Smarties Prize Gold Award on publication in 2000, and the Blue Peter Book of the Year Award in 2001. Its sequel, Slaves of the Mastery , was published in May 2001, and the final volume in the trilogy, Firesong , in May 2002. The trilogy has been sold in every major foreign market, from the US to China.
He is now at work on a new sequence of novels for older children, called The Noble Warriors . The first book, Seeker , was published in the UK in September 2005.The second book, Jango, in 2006 and the third book NOMAN, will be published in September 2007.
His novels for adults are The Society of Others (April 2004) and The Trial of True Love (April 2005).
He lives in Sussex with his wife Virginia and their three children.
from williamnicholson.co.uk
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April 9, 2011
I read this years ago when I was going through my erotica-reading stage and happened across it, recently. I was curious if it lived up to my faded memory of it. So far, it has. I've finished "Level 2" and am still interested enough to want to finish it.
This is an intelligently-written novel about a man's sexual progress through seven levels. It is titillating without being too smutty, if that makes sense. It is interesting to read this type of book from the man's point-of-view. Plus, it's a break from the usual female-being-ravished-and-losing-her-virginity spanking books!
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Upon finishing this book, I was pleasantly surprised that I had an enjoyable, philosophical (yes! philosophical) journey. This book was less about sex as it was about being here in the moment and making love to the world. I think more people should give this a read. It's defnitely unique! Plus, it is a fast, fun read.
This is an intelligently-written novel about a man's sexual progress through seven levels. It is titillating without being too smutty, if that makes sense. It is interesting to read this type of book from the man's point-of-view. Plus, it's a break from the usual female-being-ravished-and-losing-her-virginity spanking books!
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Upon finishing this book, I was pleasantly surprised that I had an enjoyable, philosophical (yes! philosophical) journey. This book was less about sex as it was about being here in the moment and making love to the world. I think more people should give this a read. It's defnitely unique! Plus, it is a fast, fun read.
December 9, 2013
Reading-in-progress review:
I found this book in a library when I was 18 or so, read it in a blaze of intensity, then went off and married. I never forgot the feeling of it - which was of some kind of profound, warm goodness - and a few scenes stayed with me forever. It's thirty years later now, and I just found a used copy (after a bit of interaction with the author on his website - a very interesting and wise man) and am reading it again. I'm at the Third Level right now, around pg 100 in the hardcover, and it's intriguing to see what an influence it was and how it's restoring some things that were lost. Looking forward to finishing it and letting its good influence spread within and without.
I found this book in a library when I was 18 or so, read it in a blaze of intensity, then went off and married. I never forgot the feeling of it - which was of some kind of profound, warm goodness - and a few scenes stayed with me forever. It's thirty years later now, and I just found a used copy (after a bit of interaction with the author on his website - a very interesting and wise man) and am reading it again. I'm at the Third Level right now, around pg 100 in the hardcover, and it's intriguing to see what an influence it was and how it's restoring some things that were lost. Looking forward to finishing it and letting its good influence spread within and without.
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