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Scary Old Sex

Arlene Heyman

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English
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
24 February 2016
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.

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Imprint:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Export/Airside
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm, 
Weight:   265g
ISBN:   9781408865323
ISBN 10:   1408865327
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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 -- 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


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