Scary Old Sex
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (843 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1632862336 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is currently at work on a novel.. She published in the New American Review and other journals, won Epoch magazine's novella contest, and has been listed twice in the honor rolls of The Best American Short Stories. Heyman is a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst practicing in New York City, where she lives with her husband. Arlene Heyman is the recipient of Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, Rockef
"In Arlene Heyman’s first book, the short-story collection Scary Old Sex, she pays such sustained and stylish attention to late-life lovemaking that you may feel you are reading about it for the first time Rueful and funny and observant Heyman is an enlightened observer across many aspects of life One of the takeaways from “Scary Old Sex” is that old sex isn’t so scary at all. Arlene Heyman looks, and does not look away, at what we think, do, hate, regret, and wish for in our secret hearts and our most private mome
"Insightful exploration of human relationships" according to Petra. Scary Old Sex is neither all about sex nor is it erotica. It's a collection of seven short stories dealing with topics most of us probably try to avoid thinking about if we can: aging, sickness, death etc.Some of it I could easily relate to, such as the way the relationship with a parent may change once the child turns caregiver to the parent.Some of it was hilarious and had me in stitches, for example, the description of sex between an older couple which had lo. tex norman said Scary Old Sex is Not ScaryIt's Art. One of the best collections of short stories I've read recently. As a 66 year old person I yearn for stories that include a POV that includes characters my age. The stories are not all about sex and the stories are not scary. No the stories are insightful and surprising. The story where a man is called by his father's mistress and he find his father dies in her bed. The man does something shocking the protect his mother as wel as his father's reputation is great. jane veecee said Grim sex. Honest and funny but a bit depressing like having bad sec or arguing with your third husband on a cruise Not reading in one sitting would make each story more meaningful, as they are repetitive They can be engaging and insightful too.
A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. 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. 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. A beautiful young art student embarks on an affair with a much older, married, famous artist. Raw, tender, funny, truthful and often shocking, Scary Old Sex is a fierce exploration of the chaos and beauty of life.. In this stunning, taboo-breaking debut, Arlene Heyman, a practicing psychiatrist, gives us what really g