
Consent: A Memoir, (Hardcover)
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Consent: A Memoir, (Hardcover)
- Consent: A Memoir (Hardcover)
- A powerful memoir by acclaimed novelist Ciment, exploring the complexities of love and morality
- Reflects on a decades-long marriage to a man she met at seventeen, set against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement
- Revisits a passionate love affair with her painting teacher that began in the 1970s, challenging societal norms of the time
- Questions the truth of her earlier memoir, Half a Life, and examines the implications of their May-December romance
- Investigates the balance of power in relationships, particularly between an older man and a younger woman
- Engages with themes of art, memory, and morality, prompting readers to consider the nature of love and consent
- An urgent read for women of all ages, offering insights shaped by time and experience
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreBiography & Memoirs
- Pages160
- Reading levelGeneral
- SubgenreMemoirs
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A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR - From the acclaimed novelist ("A virtuoso"--Donna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today's moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo. "Few writers can tackle the bedroom--or female libido . . . but Ciment is a master: in exquisitely spare prose, she nails it." -- The New York Times In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was a teenager and he was married with two children, Ciment not only reflects on how their love ignited (who leaned in first for that kiss?) but interrogates her 1996 memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself if she told the whole truth back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love, when no one asked who was served by the permissibility around a May-December romance. In the light of #metoo, with new understanding about the balance of power between an older man and an underage girl, Ciment re-explores the erotic wild ride and intellectual flowering that shaped an improbable but blissful marriage that lasted for forty-five years, until her husband's death at ninety-three. This riveting book about art, memory, and morality asks many questions along the way: Does a story's ending excuse its beginning? Does a kiss in one moment mean something else entirely five decades later? Can a love that starts with such an asymmetrical balance of power ever right itself? Suffused with the wisdom that comes with time, Consent is an author's brave recasting of her life's settled narrative, and an urgent read for women of all ages.
Consent: A Memoir, (Hardcover)
- Consent: A Memoir (Hardcover)
- A powerful memoir by acclaimed novelist Ciment, exploring the complexities of love and morality
- Reflects on a decades-long marriage to a man she met at seventeen, set against the backdrop of the #MeToo movement
- Revisits a passionate love affair with her painting teacher that began in the 1970s, challenging societal norms of the time
- Questions the truth of her earlier memoir, Half a Life, and examines the implications of their May-December romance
- Investigates the balance of power in relationships, particularly between an older man and a younger woman
- Engages with themes of art, memory, and morality, prompting readers to consider the nature of love and consent
- An urgent read for women of all ages, offering insights shaped by time and experience
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