Scary Old Sex
Person: Heyman, Arlene
Year: 2016
Language: English
Scope: 240 p.
Expected to be available from: Jan 5, 2025
- Contents:
- A breathtaking, funny, moving debut collection of short stories about aging, relationships and sex 'A bold, hilarious and intelligent debut' Irish Times 'The author writes with such intimacy and precision that she frequently makes you feel like a trespasser in the bedroom' Daily Mail _____________________ 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, fantasizing about a schoolmate's breasts and worrying about his father lying in hospital, as outside his classroom window the Twin Towers begin to fall. In this stunning, taboo-breaking debut, Arlene Heyman, a practicing psychiatrist, gives us what really goes on in people's minds, relationships, and beds. Raw, tender, funny, truthful and often shocking, Scary Old Sex is a fierce exploration of the chaos and beauty of life.
- 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. She is currently at work on a novel.
Title Information
Title: Scary Old Sex
Person: Heyman, Arlene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Pub Plc
ISBN: 9781408865347
Category: Literature & Entertainment, Novels & Narratives
Format: ePub
Loan period: 21 days