Unzipped

Weaver, Courtney

ISBN 10: 1567404898 ISBN 13: 9781567404890

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 1999

Synopsis

A study of sex in the 1990s sheds new light on the complexities and confusions of intimate relationships in modern America, in a collection of real-life experiences and reminiscences.

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Review:

The Nineties are a difficult time to have a sexual life; Courtney Weaver's snapshots from the front line demonstrate that the only thing you can be sure of is that people will gamble with their own happiness and that of those around them. Jemma leaves her husband to be the submissive of a master; Nigel deceives his fianceé for a plump American who jumps on him in the kitchen. Pregnant Marie goes off sex temporarily and tells her husband to look elsewhere, as a way of ensuring he does not--but he does, and she finds she minds a lot: " 'I said he could have an affair,' she spat out.' I didn't say he could fucking fall in love. I didn't say he could sneak around behind my back! "

A mixture of memoir, meditative polemic about sexual behaviours and good old-fashioned gossip, Unzipped raises important questions about freedom and what men and women do with it. It is a book about running your personal life with e-mail and mobile phones and about using food and exercise as substitutes for love. Courtney Weaver's cosmopolitan, high-stress life style in San Francisco has enough in common with life elsewhere that much of what she says has resonance, even when she is moralising.--Roz Kaveney

About the Author:

Courtney Weaver wrote the popular column "Unzipped" for Salon magazine for over two years.  She graduated from Brown University with a degree in semiotics and later received an M.A. in creative writing from New York University.  She has worked for the San Francisco Chronicle and the BBC, and is a regular contributor to The New York Times.  In addition to appearing on ABC-TV's "Politically Incorrect," she has written for the Washington Post, Allure, Marie Claire, and the San Francisco Examiner.  Unzipped is her first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1567404898
• ISBN 13: 9781567404890
• Binding: Audio Cassette