The passage of time may put an end to some youthful pursuits. But year-old practicing psychiatrist Arlene Heyman makes clear that well into old age the se. Scary Old Sex was written and rewritten over a period of thirty years. In her youth, Arlene Heyman had been a promising writer, studying with Bernard Malamud at Bennington College, earning an M.A. from the Syracuse University writing program, teaching literature, publishing stories. "Scary Old Sex will be the raciest set of short stories from a female septuagenarian you’ll read this year. There are shades of Philip Roth in psychiatrist Arlene Heyman’s graphic scenes; she has an unapologetic, unflinching approach to sex and bodies, which somehow makes her stories, mainly focussing on relationships involving older and/or ill people, all the more life-affirming.
In a world where sexual images are often those of healthy young adults, these compelling short stories by New York psychiatrist Arlene Heyman are refreshingly original, funny and sometimes confronting. In the opening story 'The Loves of Her Life', a sixty-five-year old woman describes in great detail sex with her year-old husband. 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 timeRueful and funny and observant Heyman is an enlightened observer across many aspects of life. Scary Old Sex | The acclaimed debut collection of short stories by practicing psychiatrist Arlene Heyman--a work of "bliss that lifts right off the page." (Dwight Garner, NYT)A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past.
It’s been more than 50 years, and Heyman, 74, is finally publishing her first book, Scary Old Sex, a collection of seven stories that may be off-putting to some prudish readers and will likely. The passage of time may put an end to some youthful pursuits. But year-old practicing psychiatrist Arlene Heyman makes clear that well into old age the se. In short, Scary Old Sex has a lot more literary history and mystery going for it than most first-time collections. It’s always an event when the silent muse speaks up for herself, and in Heyman.
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