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{"id":7130422247483,"title":"Eve","handle":"eve","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA radical interrogation of the ethics and future of birth by an expert legal scholar.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery single one of us has been born from a person. So far. But that is about to change. For the first time, babies could be gestated and born from machines through “Ex-vivo Uterine Environment Therapy,” aka EVE. But such radical technology leaves us with complex legal, social, and ethical questions. What does this breakthrough in artificial human gestation mean for motherhood, womanhood, and parenthood? Countries and people that do not respect the autonomy of pregnant people may use these technologies to curtail choice further, advance eugenic ideas, or to deepen class and racial divides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating story of modern birth, Claire Horn takes us on a journey from the first orchid-like incubators in the 1880s to the cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs of today. As she explores the most challenging and pertinent questions of our age, Horn reflects on her own pregnancy. Could artificial wombs allow women to redistribute the work of gestating? How do we protect reproductive and abortion rights? And who exactly gets access to this technology, in our vastly unequal world?\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-05-08T16:56:19-04:00","created_at":"2023-05-08T16:25:52-04:00","vendor":"House of Anansi Press Inc","type":"","tags":["Adult New Releases","Adult Nonfiction","By (author) Horn Claire","Feminist Reads","House of Anansi Press","pub date: 2023-11-07","Technology \u0026 Politics"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":2299,"available":true,"price_varies":true,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41234822660155,"title":"trade paperback","option1":"trade paperback","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012267","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Eve - trade paperback","public_title":"trade paperback","options":["trade paperback"],"price":2299,"weight":259,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"9781487012267","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]},{"id":41234824069179,"title":"epub","option1":"epub","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"9781487012274","requires_shipping":false,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Eve - epub","public_title":"epub","options":["epub"],"price":1899,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":null,"barcode":"9781487012274","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_671428e2-e77c-46dd-b91e-57a378f531df.jpg?v=1707776615"],"featured_image":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_671428e2-e77c-46dd-b91e-57a378f531df.jpg?v=1707776615","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24183841095739,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"width":1650,"src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_671428e2-e77c-46dd-b91e-57a378f531df.jpg?v=1707776615"},"aspect_ratio":0.647,"height":2550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/houseofanansi.com\/cdn\/shop\/files\/BNCImageAPI_671428e2-e77c-46dd-b91e-57a378f531df.jpg?v=1707776615","width":1650}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA radical interrogation of the ethics and future of birth by an expert legal scholar.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery single one of us has been born from a person. So far. But that is about to change. For the first time, babies could be gestated and born from machines through “Ex-vivo Uterine Environment Therapy,” aka EVE. But such radical technology leaves us with complex legal, social, and ethical questions. What does this breakthrough in artificial human gestation mean for motherhood, womanhood, and parenthood? Countries and people that do not respect the autonomy of pregnant people may use these technologies to curtail choice further, advance eugenic ideas, or to deepen class and racial divides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fascinating story of modern birth, Claire Horn takes us on a journey from the first orchid-like incubators in the 1880s to the cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs of today. As she explores the most challenging and pertinent questions of our age, Horn reflects on her own pregnancy. Could artificial wombs allow women to redistribute the work of gestating? How do we protect reproductive and abortion rights? And who exactly gets access to this technology, in our vastly unequal world?\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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Eve
A radical interrogation of the ethics and future of birth by an expert legal scholar.
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{"id":6815262605371,"title":"Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances)","handle":"fearless-as-possible-under-the-circumstances","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this smart, funny, and inspiring memoir, Denise Donlon recounts her journey as a corporate leader at the forefront of the massive changes in the Canadian music and media industries.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of Canada’s most celebrated and dynamic corporate leaders and broadcasters, Denise Donlon has long been recognized as a trailblazer in the Canadian cultural industries. In \u003ci\u003eFearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances)\u003c\/i\u003e, Donlon chronicles her impressive and storied career at MuchMusic, Sony Music Canada, and CBC English Radio, which put her at the forefront of the massive changes in the music industry and media. 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Fearless as Possible (Under the Circumstances)
In this smart and inspiring memoir, Donlon chronicles her impressive career, which has put her at the forefront of the changes in the music industry.
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I look at it in puzzlement, wondering how Jamie Quatro gives such breadth, depth, and intensity in so few words. And it’s funny, and real, and painful, so painful. Also a shot of light. An education. A mirror. Terrifying.","OtherText_Accolades_0_Src":"Samantha Harvey, author of The Wilderness and Dear Thief","OtherText_Accolades_1":"I devoured this novel! Quatro is a fearless marvel. An exquisite story of female desire, faith, and commitment, and one of the most haunting portraits of a marriage I’ve ever read.","OtherText_Accolades_1_Src":"Lily King, author of the New York Times bestseller Euphoria","OtherText_Accolades_2":"It would be difficult to overstate the wonder I felt while reading this novel. It’s among the most beautiful books I’ve ever read about longing — for beauty, for sex, for God, for a coherent life. Great writers write with their whole lives, with everything they have seen and thought and felt, with their obsessions and their desires; their books have the density and richness of existence. Jamie Quatro is a such a writer, and Fire Sermon is such a book.","OtherText_Accolades_2_Src":"Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You","OtherText_Accolades_3":"This book is bright and dark by turns but always shot through with a vital, unerring grace. Plus it's about love and death, sex and God. What more could a reader want?","OtherText_Accolades_3_Src":"Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Chapter 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShall we walk back? James asked outside the theater.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChicago, April 2017. The air chilly, the sky cleared off after an evening of rain. We’d left the play a half-hour after it began, a poorly-written, poorly-acted farce. Now the sidewalk was empty. Tiny lights strung between gas lamps and storefronts created a glittery canopy beneath which we stood. Charming, he’d said when we arrived earlier, a part of the city neither of us had seen. I was still in my clothes from that morning: white sweater, pencil skirt, suede ankle boots with zippers, high-heeled. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI’ll call a car, I said. Your hotel’s on the way to mine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe rode in silence, the wet asphalt glowing red and green at stoplights. When we pulled up to his hotel, James turned to face me, adjusting his glasses. Okay, he said. Text me when you’re safely back. He leaned over to brush my cheek with his lips, but when the bellhop opened the rear door he didn’t get out. He sat looking ahead, rubbing a hand up and down, up and down his thigh.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth of us 45, born in the same year, four months apart; both married to our spouses for twenty-three years. Two similarities in what had come to seem, in the time we’d known each other, a cosmically-ordained accumulation: born and raised in the desert southwest, allergic to peanuts, obsessed with the Christian mystics and quantum theory and Moby Dick. Children the same ages and genders—older girl, younger boy—and 96-year-old grandmothers who still lived independently. In the end it was this last fact that undid me, the longevity in our respective genes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe safe way to let yourself fall in love with someone who isn’t your spouse: imagine the life you might have together after both your spouses have passed away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(What I mean is, darling: when I made love with you that night, I was making love with the magnificent old man I knew you would become.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan I help with any bags? the bellhop said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou’re at the Hyatt? James said to me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTake us to the Hyatt, he said to the driver, and pulled the door shut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\/\u003e**\u003cbr\/\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut this story begins where most end: a boy and a girl in love, a wedding, a happily-ever-after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalibu, June. A bride and four attendants on a grassy bluff above the Pacific. The morning is overcast, typical on the coast, the diffuse light ideal for photographs. The bride’s dress is raw silk in antique ivory and appears backlit against the slate of ocean. Sweetheart neckline, cap sleeves, full skirt with a train that will later gather into a bustle. She cradles her bouquet like an infant, six-dozen roses in various stages of bloom, blush pink. The groomsmen, fraternity brothers, have already been photographed. They wait inside the chapel, where in half an hour the ceremony will begin. They wear gray tuxedos with ascot ties and slick black shoes. Three, including the groom, have the same round tortoise-shell glasses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDown the coast, at the country club in Pacific Palisades, the caterers are assembling the cake: five tiers frosted in a basket-weave pattern, with real ivy and roses trailing down one side. The bride has selected a different flavor for each tier: butter cream, chocolate, spice, red velvet. The top layer—which will be placed in the couple’s freezer for their first anniversary, until one night while they’re out, the bride’s younger brother, knowing nothing about such traditions, eats the whole thing—is white-chocolate with raspberry-creme filling. The centerpieces are fishbowls with ivy and roses identical to those on the cake. They sit in a refrigerated van on Pacific Coast Highway, north of Sunset. The driver is stuck in beach traffic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut there is plenty of time.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"There’s real humanity in this novel, and there are insights about love and longing.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_1":"Rolling, raw, and sensual . . . The sentences burn with desire and disquiet. The novel is generously condensed, ardently focused, and its mechanisms poetic, not expository.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New York Times Book Review","OtherText_Review_2":"A lean first novel steeped in theology, suburban domesticity, literary criticism, child-rearing and, most dramatically, infidelity, Fire Sermon sizzles and cools to the rhythm of its narrator Maggie's moods and meanderings.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Shelf Awareness","OtherText_Review_3":"The mechanics of Quatro’s novel are an enjoyable puzzle.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCodeText_1":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeCode_1":"03","PrizeName_0":"An Economist Book of the Year","PrizeName_1":"Indie Next Pick","PrizeYear_0":"2018","PrizeYear_1":"2018","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2018-01-16","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Fire Sermon
An unflinching and profound portrait of Maggie and Thomas, and their disintegrating marriage.
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The early Governor General’s Literary Award–winning collection from one of Canada’s most profoundly inventive and eminent poets.
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Hair for Men
The second novel by Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michelle Winters teems with hot towel shaves and the steady thrum of female rage.
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Halfway Home
Award-winning author Christina Myers navigates the uncharted territory of midlife in a time of rapid social, cultural, and environmental change.
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Heroes in My Head
The incredible story of renowned feminist activist Judy Rebick’s struggle with depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
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One had her hair done pageboy style, slicked down, and a button nose, light-coloured skin, and slightly slanted eyes that made her look like a cat about to pounce. The other was constantly adjusting her abundant chestnut hair with the back of her hand. Her black eyes accentuated the whiteness of her skin; a few reddish blotches marked her oval face. Reem and Farah looked me over carefully when they saw me come in with Donia. Even before we were introduced, I knew they wouldn’t like me. My ripped jeans, my multiple earrings worn in a line along my earlobe, the high forehead I’d inherited from my mom, and my blues eyes, just like my dad’s: everything about me told them just how foreign I was. Even my brown and hopelessly curly hair that stood out in corkscrew-like tufts from my head — another hand-me-down from Mom and a source of wonder, of compliments, and admiration during my childhood in Canada — was not enough for them to see me as a Tunisian. 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In their eyes, I was some kind of strange mix, a hybrid, a monstrosity produced by the meeting of two distinct worlds but clearly belonging to neither.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Monia Mazigh's second novel is an engaging book in which choices abound for young Muslim women.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"The Ottawa Citizen","OtherText_Review_1":"Both readable and relevant, especially since the reverberations of the Jasmine Revolution are still being felt today.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"The Winnipeg Free Press","OtherText_Review_2":"An important work of fiction.","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"Quill and Quire","OtherText_Review_3":"Monia Mazigh’s latest novel takes readers through a cycle of hope, uprising, despair and hope again in a story of two girls awakened by civil unrest.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"The Globe and Mail","OtherText_Review_4":"Hope Has Two Daughters adds significantly to a growing body of literature by and about Muslim women and sheds fresh light on a country still experiencing its own coming of age.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"The Toronto Star","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2017-01-28","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Hope Has Two Daughters
Hope Has Two Daughters offers a glimpse inside two Iranian revolutions from the perspectives of a mother and daughter.
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It won't be as difficult for potential buyers to project their own lives onto them — nothing is less helpful than a pink bedroom covered in princess decals for the morale of a mother with two sons who longs for the daughter she never had and hopes to find in her new abode the secret formula that will at last guarantee her the perfect family she's dreamt of since childhood. I respond to the client with all the solicitude I can muster, \u003cem\u003eWho knows, this house could be a lucky charm\u003c\/em\u003e, but when, guilt-ridden at having downplayed the worth of the children she does have, she grabs hold of my arm, \u003cem\u003eMy boys are wonderful, I love them so much, after all, what counts is that they're healthy, no? Do you have children?\u003c\/em\u003e and I answer, \u003cem\u003eYes, three boys,\u003c\/em\u003e for the space of a second, she's caught between wanting to be me and relief that she isn't. 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In capturing and sustaining that intense emotional pitch, the novel is spiritual kin to Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Adult Onset and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk About Kevin . . . Translators Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli do an exemplary job of rendering Britt’s prose crisply and idiomatically.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"Montreal Gazette","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback with flaps","PublicationDate":"2017-07-01","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.","Width":"5.25","WidthCode":"in"}
Hunting Houses
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies meets Rachel Cusk’s The Lucky Ones in this astounding debut novel about a woman on the verge of infidelity.
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I Am Because We Are
In this innovative memoir, a daughter tells the story of her mother, a pan-African hero who faced down misogyny and battled corruption in Nigeria.
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I Never Said That I Was Brave
A taut tale of female friendship and betrayal.
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Both \u003cem\u003eLipstick Jungle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Carrie Diaries\u003c\/em\u003e became popular television series.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","Contributor_0":"Bushnell, Candace","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwenty years after her sharp, seminal first book \u003ci\u003eSex and the City\u003c\/i\u003e reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly-on-the-wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, \u003ci\u003eIs There Still Sex in the City\u003c\/i\u003e? gathers Bushnell’s signature short, sharp, satirical commentaries on the love and dating habits of middle-aged men and women as they continue to navigate the ever-modernizing world of relationships. Throughout, Bushnell documents twenty-first century dating phenomena, such as the “Unintended Cub Situation” in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, the “Mona Lisa” Treatment — a vaginal restorative surgery often recommended to middle-aged women — and what it’s really like to go on Tinder dates as a fifty-something divorcée. Bushnell also updates one of her most celebrated stories from \u003ci\u003eSex and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, about “Bicycle Boys,” a breed of New York man who is always trying to bring his bike up to women’s apartments. Once an anomaly, Bushnell charts their new ubiquitousness, in addition to where, and how, to do your own man stalking via bicycle (and whether or not it’s worth it).\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487006938","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487006938\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.25","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Anansi International","NumberOfPages":"272","OtherText_Description_for_R_0":"\u003cp\u003eSix months into my retreat, I got a call from Tina Brown. She had a story idea for me. Now that the appropriate time had passed since my divorce, I should throw myself back into the dating world and write about what it was like to be dating over fifty. I could do internet dating. I could hire a matchmaker…\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI cut her off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI don’t think so.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wasn’t ready to start dating. But most of all, I didn’t want to. I’d been in relationships for nearly thirty-five years. I’d even experienced the full relationship cycle — fall in love, get married, and get divorced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now I was supposed to do it all over again? Was engaging in the relationship cycle the only thing I could do with my life? I thought about that good old definition of crazy: Doing the same thing over and over again and hoping for a different result.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was time to put an end to the cycle. And so I decided for the first time in thirty-four years, to be man-free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis also meant being sex-free. At this point in my life, I’m not a casual sex person.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn’t talk about it, of course. The topic of sex, once the source of so much amusement, embarrassment, fear and joy, rarely came up. My single friends had been single forever and not dating and therefore not getting any, while my married friends were married and dealing with kids and also — I imagined — not getting any.\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_0":"Perhaps no one has better excavated our kinky underpinnings than Candace Bushnell, author of the original ‘Sex and the City’ columns and progenitor of the show that made Manolo a household name. Fifteen years after Carrie Bradshaw sighed her last ‘I couldn't help but wonder,’ Bushnell is back with Is There Still Sex in the City? The protagonist, Candace, is a recently divorced writer who trades her Manhattan life for a cottage in the Hamptons . . . [Is There Still Sex in the City? is] brimming with the snappy rhetorical questions and taxonomic acronyms that became Bushnell's signature back in the stiletto days . . . While Carrie was a bright-eyed anthropologist, Candace and her friends are survivalists; even beyond the City, it's a jungle out there.","OtherText_Review_0_Src":"Vogue","OtherText_Review_1":"Sometimes it can be fun to wonder what became of our fictional heroines . . . what of Carrie Bradshaw? After she bagged her Mr. Big, did she list her $40,000 shoe collection on eBay, move to the suburbs, have a bunch of kids, and grow old gracefully? Or did Carrie find herself in her fifties child-free, single again, and wondering how to get back in the game, only to have her gynecologist recommend a Mona Lisa laser treatment because ‘your vagina is not flexible enough’? Ugh. Such are the humiliations awaiting the female in middle age. That you-gotta-laugh-or-you-cry place is where Candace Bushnell, with her usual sparkling candor, begins Is There Still Sex in the City?.","OtherText_Review_1_Src":"New York Times","OtherText_Review_2":"The book captures the buoyancy of the writer’s brand . . . As with the show, there’s a lot to relish. Bushnell’s portrayals of the women in her circle somehow feel both forgiving and clinical, with an anthropologist’s matter-of-factness . . . Bushnell wrestles smartly with the theme of aging, with how being a ‘fiftysomething’ woman is different from being a ‘thirtysomething’ woman . . . This Bushnell writes most gracefully about topics that are not sex and dating . . . The city is big, Bushnell implies, but not endless. The sex never left it. But was sex ever really the point?","OtherText_Review_2_Src":"New Yorker","OtherText_Review_3":"Bushnell’s voice is as knowing and sharp as ever . . . As with SATC’s ‘toxic bachelors’ and ‘modelizers,’ there’s a new taxonomy: ‘Cubbing,’ the pursuit of older women by younger men; or ‘MAM,’ for middle-aged madness, a late-onset midlife crisis for women. She also updates a chapter on ‘bicycle boys’ — then, the charmingly rumpled literary types on vintage bikes, now wealthy guys in Lycra.","OtherText_Review_3_Src":"Washington Post","OtherText_Review_4":"While [Bushnell] doesn’t bring back Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, or Samantha, it feels a bit like we’re at brunch with middle-aged versions of those archetypes, and they’re still talking about love and sex because, well, of course. The book, part memoir, part fiction, is a guide to the Ides of Fifty . . . Much like in the original SATC, Bushnell and her friends experience every romantic possibility so we don’t have to . . . Bushnell also touches on poignant aspects of what she calls ‘middle-aged madness’: the death of a parent, the isolation of divorce, the ache of realizing that even the most gorgeous among us will eventually become invisible.","OtherText_Review_4_Src":"Time Magazine","OtherText_Review_5":"As she did in her bestselling Sex in the City, Bushnell examines her own and her friends’ experiences with dry wit, delivering sharp social observations about the trials and piquant pleasures of looking for love at a certain age.","OtherText_Review_5_Src":"People Magazine","OtherText_Review_6":"It’s hard out there for a cougar. But for Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell, it’s exactly the age when women need her the most. Her latest book addresses . . . women in their fifties and sixties who suddenly find themselves dating again. As with its predecessor, there is no shortage of catchphrase-worthy sentiments.","OtherText_Review_6_Src":"Entertainment Weekly","OtherText_Review_7":"What comes after cosmos and toxic bachelors? Fuelled by chilled rosé, Sex and the City scribe Candace Bushnell is masterfully decoding a new era of single life.","OtherText_Review_7_Src":"USA Today","OtherText_Review_8":"Bittersweet, amusing, and well observed.","OtherText_Review_8_Src":"Guardian","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.","ProductFormDescription":"trade paperback","PublicationDate":"2019-08-06","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.","Width":"5.5","WidthCode":"in"}
Is There Still Sex in the City?
Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City, delivers a highly entertaining book on the highs and lows of sex and dating after fifty.
