02005cam a2200253 i 4500 296111412 TxAuBib 20160401120000.0 150403s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015012211 9781632862334 1632862336 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Heyman, Arlene. Scary old sex [BOOK] : stories / Arlene Heyman. NY : Bloomsbury, 2016. 228 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. But her life changed course once she entered medical school; although she always wrote in quiet moments, she went on to work as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst while raising her sons. Now Bloomsbury is bringing to light these mature and accomplished stories, the fruit of a lifetime. In this taboo-breaking debut, Heyman gives us what really goes on in people's minds and relationships--those things left unspoken in much of society, about sex between older people, or about sex and love when one person is very ill, or when the age difference makes the relationship practically illegal. Love and sex in these stories are sometimes seen through the wide-open eyes of women, with women often in dominant roles in relationships. Looking behind the curtain at the intimacies we usually keep to ourselves, a few of the stories are raw, many are unsettling, but all are insightful and at times comical. Not intended to be titillating, Heyman's stories give us the lives we all live: shocking, sloppy, human. 20160401. Short stories.