Scary Old Sex

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, is a fierce exploration of the chaos and beauty of life.

Product details

• Authors: Arlene Heyman, Heyman Arlene
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.02.2017
• EAN: 9781408865330
• ISBN: 978-1-4088-6533-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary