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
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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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