A Round-Heeled Woman

by Juska, Jane

• ISBN13: 9781587245022
• ISBN10: 1587245027
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Wheeler Pub Inc

Summary

""Round-heeled" is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous - someone who nowadays might be called "easy." It's a surprising way for a cultured English teacher with a passion for the novels of Anthony Trollope to describe herself, but then that's just the first of many surprises to be found in this poignant, funny, utterly unique memoir. Jane Juska is a smart, energetic divorcee who decided she'd been celibate too long, and placed the following personal ad in her favorite newspaper, The New York Review of Books: Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me." "This closing reference was a nod to her favorite author, of course. The response was overwhelming, and Juska took a sabbatical from teaching to meet some of the men who had replied. And since her ad made it clear that she wasn't expecting just hand-holding, her dates zipped from first base to home plate in record time."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

ONE At the Movies	11	(14)
TWO The Library	25	(10)
THREE Triage	35	(14)
FOUR Oh, Danny Boy	49	(16)
FIVE The Fabulous Fifties	65	(22)
SIX My Very Own Jew	87	(33)
SEVEN Back to the Couch	120	(15)
EIGHT A Woman of Many Parts	135	(10)
NINE San Quentin State Prison	145	(27)
TEN The New Millennium: In Which I Turn Sixty-Seven	172	(25)
ELEVEN Higher Education	197	(19)
TWELVE Sex at the Morgan	216	(25)
THIRTEEN Going Backward	241	(31)
FOURTEEN The Education of Andy's Mom	272	(20)
FIFTEEN The Man Who Got Away, or What Price Trollope?	292	(23)
SIXTEEN Kyrie Eleison	315	(15)
SEVENTEEN Hard Candy	330	(27)
EIGHTEEN A Merry Old Soul	357	(25)
NINETEEN A Wink and a Smile	382