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A woman, in bed / Anne Finger.
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- ISBN: 9781941026748 : PAP
- ISBN: 1941026745 : PAP
- Physical Description: 411 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Copyright: 2018.
Content descriptions
| Summary, etc.: | "Paris, 20th century, WWI to WWII and beyond. Simone abandons her body to lust, leaves her husband for Jacques, sleeps with strangers. But she is never satisfied. It is only when she is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, when she appears to be most broken in her body, that she finally finds the tender, fulfilling love she has been seeking"-- Provided by publisher. "Simone comes of age in WWI. She comes into her own in WWII as part of the French resistance. Frequently, she abandons herself to lust--particularly to a man named Jacques. She leaves her first husband for Jacques and spends over a decade as his lover. They eventually marry, yet Simone still sleeps with strangers, her husband the most distant of them all. What is she seeking? Simone isn't sure. More than sex--a tenderness that lust can never fill. Just when her body feels most fragile, she meets Pierre, amuch younger man, a novice at love-making, clumsy and overly emotional, a fool--yet there is something about him. A lifelong love story not between two lovers but between a woman and her body"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Women > Sexual behavior > Fiction. Self-realization in women > Fiction. Married women > Fiction. Adultery > Fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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Author Notes
A Woman, in Bed
Anne Finger is a writer of fiction--both short stories and a novel--as well as of creative non-fiction. She is currently the Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Her short story collection, Call Me Ahab, winner of the Prairie Schooner Award, was published in the Fall of 2009 by the University of Nebraska Press. She has had four other books published. Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Discourse, and Ploughshares. She has taught creative writing at the university level as well as teaching workshops in the community. She has also been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, Centrum and Hedgebrook. She lives in Oakland, California.
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