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The Celestial Bed
by Irving Wallace
3.1 of 5 stars 3.10  ·  rating details  ·  212 ratings  ·  6 reviews
In his most powerful and provocative novel to date, master storyteller Irving Wallace turns his incomparable talents to the world of sex therapy. Erotically charged, compassionate, and suspenseful, The Celestial Bed explores the way people make love in postsexual-revolution America.

A great novel about the use of sex surrogates in therapy. Dr. Arnold Freeberg is one such doctor in his treatments of patients with sexual problems.

Gayle Miller & Paul Brandon are two such surrogates who worked at helping people.

Yet, as before in Arizona, people thought them no different from prostitutes. Chet Hunter, a budding journalist and researcher senses a great story int he fact that Dr. Freeberg's clinic uses sex surrogates told to him by Suzy Edwards, its receptionist.




rving Wallace
Author profile

born
in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
March 19, 1916

died
June 29, 1990

gender
male

genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction


About this author
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Irving Wallace was an American bestselling author and screenwriter. His extensively researched books included such page-turners as The Chapman Report (1960), about human sexuality; The Prize (1962), a fictional behind-the-scenes account of the Nobel Prizes; The Man, about a black man becoming president of the U.S. in the 1960s; and The Word (1972), about the discovery of a new gospel.

Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois. Wallace grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was the father of Olympic historian David Wallechinsky and author Amy Wallace.

Wallace began selling stories to magazines when he was a teenager. In World War II Wallace served in the Frank Capra unit in Fort Fox along with Theodor Seuss Geisel - more popularly known as Dr Seuss - and continued to write for magazines. He also served in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force. In the years immediately following World war II Wallace became a Hollywood screenwriter. He collaborated on such films as The West Point Story (1950), Split Second (1953),and Meet Me at the Fair (1953).

After several years in Hollywood, he devoted himself full-time to writing books. Wallace published 33 books during his lifetime.
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