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Scary Old Sex
Arlene Heyman
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Description for Scary Old Sex
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 170.
A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once glamorous and still commanding; their fraught relationship causes unexpected feelings both shaming and brutal. A man finds that his father has died while in the midst of extra-marital sex and wonders what he should do with the body. And a boy sits in his Calculus class, ... Read more
A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. A middle-aged woman struggles with the decline of her mother, once glamorous and still commanding; their fraught relationship causes unexpected feelings both shaming and brutal. A man finds that his father has died while in the midst of extra-marital sex and wonders what he should do with the body. And a boy sits in his Calculus class, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408865330
SKU
V9781408865330
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99-50
About Arlene Heyman
Arlene Heyman is the recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Robert Wood Johnson Fellowships. Her short stories have appeared in The New American Review and she won Epoch magazine's novella contest. She's been listed twice in the honour rolls of Best American Short Stories. Heyman is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst practicing in New York City, where she lives with her husband. ... Read more
Reviews for Scary Old Sex
What an astonishing collection! I absolutely loved these stories, so stylish, earthy and funny - and underneath them, thrumming away, a sense of our own mortality
Deborah Moggach Perceptive and unflinching ... She writes with such verve and kindness about her characters and their sex lives - their fears, phobias and muddles - that you can't help but smile ... Read more
Deborah Moggach Perceptive and unflinching ... She writes with such verve and kindness about her characters and their sex lives - their fears, phobias and muddles - that you can't help but smile ... Read more