Scary Old Sex - Softcover

Arlene Heyman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408865335 ISBN 13: 9781408865330

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Scary Old Sex

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

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 -- Mavis Cheek Raw, tender, funny, truthful and often shocking, Scary Old Sex is a fierce exploration of the chaos and beauty of life * Jewish Chronicle * Scary Old Sex is a collection of short stories that strike to the bone of loving relationships - and to their flesh as well ... Women emerging from their forties and men even older will find Heyman's love-stories enthralling, and reassuring too, as regards long-term sexual zest ... The author, Arlene Heyman, is not only a gifted story-teller; she is also a doctor and psychoanalyst. And presumably it is thanks to Heyman's profession and to its requisite objectivity that she writes with creative imagination, unexpected from a female author, about the man's position (as it were) in love ... Heyman is a witty and intellectually spry 70-year-old ... In spite of the book's title and although many of its tales transpire in bed or near one, they are as much, if not more about the dynamic of long-term companionship -- Irma Kurtz * Jewish Chronicle * This sensual and sometimes shocking collection understands and explores how people's lives are complicated by sex ... The author is a practising psychiatrist and writes with such intimacy and precision that she frequently makes you feel like a trespasser in the bedroom -- Imogen Lycett-Green * Daily Mail * A bold, hilarious and intelligent debut collection of stories featuring, the peaks and troughs in the (sex) lives of older characters, mostly in New York. Expect illness, decay and belly laughs but also to be moved. Heyman is upfront - no body part or function shied from - and her characters are richly internal -- Nuala O'Connor * Irish Times *

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1408865335
• ISBN 13: 9781408865330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240