Thoughts from a Queen-sized BedU of Nebraska Press, 1 янв. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 159 In this startlingly funny and wonderfully honest book of essays, Mimi Schwartz describes what it means to be married for almost forty years. She writes with a keen and amused eye about growing up in an immigrant Jewish family, coming of age in New York in the 1950s, marrying her high school beau, and then arriving at feminist consciousness in the 1970s like so many others of her generation. But unlike many of her contemporaries who left first marriages for independence, Schwartz stayed loyal to her marriage. With refreshing candor Schwartz describes the ongoing challenge of marriage, where success is never without ambivalence and humor. Her essays are wise and warm without being sentimental, and the characters in Schwartz's world are quirky and as charming, well rounded, and complex as those found in any novel. |
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Front Door on The Driveway | 5 |
Jimmy and June | 10 |
On Being a Mom | 15 |
Sewing Lesson | 18 |
Closet Fantasies | 21 |
Meat Loaf in the Freezer | 23 |
Negotiating Monogamy | 26 |
Thats What You Get for Being Faithful | 30 |
Changing Lanes | 72 |
Doorknob Conviction | 74 |
Tomboyhood Revisited | 77 |
Anonymous Translation | 81 |
Improvisation on I Do | 88 |
The New Kitchen | 94 |
If and When | 96 |
Game Plan | 101 |
Sultan and the Red Honda | 32 |
Two Steps to One | 34 |
Weighing In between Rubens and Modigliani | 38 |
The Power of the Cap | 42 |
How We Mourn the Powerful | 44 |
Towpath Therapy | 48 |
MORNING LEGACIES | 53 |
A Night for Haroset | 55 |
Dreaming of Lace | 60 |
Stress Test | 63 |
Cappuccino at Rosas | 68 |
In Glorietta Canyon | 105 |
LIFE AFTER BREAKFAST | 109 |
A Map to Cape Cod | 111 |
Theres Always the Afternoon | 118 |
Alan Should Have Rented a Car | 122 |
The Other Redhead and Me | 131 |
Under the Sunblock | 138 |
Gradually Grandma | 150 |
In a House by a Lake | 155 |
Acknowledgments | 158 |
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