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Dederer, Claire, 1967-
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Dederer, Claire, 1967-
Middle-aged women -- Biography
Middle-aged women -- Psychology.
Middle-aged persons -- Biography.
Midlife crisis.
Motherhood.
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Dederer, Claire, 1967-
Dederer, Claire, 1967-
Middle-aged women -- Biography
Middle-aged women -- Psychology.
Middle-aged persons -- Biography.
Midlife crisis.
Motherhood.
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Love and trouble : a midlife reckoning / Claire Dederer.
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Dederer, Claire, 1967-
Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Call #:
305
.2442
D299L
Subjects
Dederer, Claire, 1967-
Middle-aged women -- Biography
Middle-aged women -- Psychology.
Middle-aged persons -- Biography.
Midlife crisis.
Motherhood.
ISBN:
9781101946503 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
237 pages ; 25 cm
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Contents:
You, now -- A geography of crying -- How to have sex with your husband of fifteen years -- A kiss may ruin a human life -- Pomegranates -- The, you know, encroaching darkness -- Dear Roman Polanski -- The love square: a cautionary tale -- Josephine in Laurelhurst -- Scratch a punk, find a hippie -- Recidivist slutty tendencies in the pre-AIDS-era adolescent female: a case study -- Jump cuts -- A is for acid: an Oberlin abecedarium -- Repulsion! -- Syllabus -- How to be in Seattle in the '90s -- Dante and Virgil in L.A. -- Three kisses, in the passive voice -- Don't tell anyone -- Uchronia -- On victimhood -- Dear Roman Polanski, part deux -- Consolations and desolations.
Summary:
"From the author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses, a ferocious, sexy, hilarious memoir about going off the rails at midlife and trying to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Claire Dederer is a happily married mother of two, ages nine and twelve, when she suddenly finds herself totally despondent and, simultaneously, suffering through a kind of erotic reawakening. She shifts between her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of mysterious new hungers and herself as a teenager, when she last experienced life with such heightened sensitivity and longing. From her hilarious chapter titles ("How to Have Sex with Your Husband of Seventeen Years") to her subjects - from the boyfriend she dumped at fourteen the moment she learned how to give herself an orgasm, to the girls who ruled her elite private school ("when I left Oberlin I thought I had done with them forever, but it turned out they also edited all the newspapers and magazines, and wrote all the books"), to raising a teenage daughter herself - Dederer writes with an electrifying blend of wry wit and raw honesty. She exposes herself utterly, and in doing so captures something universal about the experience of being a woman, a daughter, a wife"--Provided by publisher.
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Memoirs.
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