Over the Hill and Between the Sheets: Sex, Love, and Lust in Middle Age [Hardcover]

Gail Belsky (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 9, 2007

Every Baby Boomer has to confront it: their changing midlife sex lives. Now, Gail Belsky provides an unfailingly honest anthology that is incredibly varied, wickedly funny, shockingly explicit, and surprisingly sweet about life in the bedroom after 40. Topics include an unexpected second marriage to a much younger man, the discovery of phone sex during wartime, the confession to an adulterous affair, and a his-and hers dissection of the changes in a long-term partnership--the good, the bad, and the ugly. It's all here on the journey "over the hill and between the sheets."

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About the Author

Gail Belsky is a consulting magazine editor and professor of journalism at Fordham University. An eight-year veteran of women's magazines, Gail was executive editor at Working Mother and Senior Editor at Parents. She worked on the launch of Time Inc.'s newest women's magazine title, All You. GAIL BELSKY lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Life & Style; 1 edition (July 9, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446580791
• ISBN-13: 978-0446580793
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,373,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So Much More Than Meets The Eye, July 11, 2007

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This review is from: Over the Hill and Between the Sheets: Sex, Love, and Lust in Middle Age (Hardcover)

Books that are compilations of essays run the gamut -- this one happens to be excellent. Despite the title, the book is much more about relationships in middle age than it is about sex. Sure, there's plenty of sex in the stories, but in the context of middle-agers dealing with divorce, death, illness, friendship, keeping long-term relationships going, etc. All the stories are windows into the private lives of people who seem remarkably like your own friends and neighbors, but now they're fessing up to their erectile dysfunction and penchant for sex toys! A great read.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Commercial cover, Non-Commercial content, August 7, 2007

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Michael P. Maslanka (dallas, texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Over the Hill and Between the Sheets: Sex, Love, and Lust in Middle Age (Hardcover)

I paused before buying---Cosmo like title, with feet sticking out from under bed sheets. But buy I did and while some disappoint---especially the ones about sex("Sex and the Younger Man" has a made up feel, a post hoc essay on why what happened, happened), the rest are first rate and deal with middle age and fear, whether it is Cameron Strachert's incisive essay on what it means to be a man who has not measured up to his expectations or the success of his buddies or Joyce Maynard's honest(no other word for it) statement that women are always measured by their looks and so, yes, she will use Botox("Wrinkles in Time") or the paired essay from husband and wife Wilkinson and Crandell on the removal of his prostate, how that made his penis smaller and what they did about it. Also, crack me up funny essay by Lian Dolan, "Too Much inofrmation" on how our culture encourages people to yak away to all who will listen on their sex. Lots of hard truths in these essays but knowing that we do not go it alone is the saving grace.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully Honest, July 15, 2007

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This review is from: Over the Hill and Between the Sheets: Sex, Love, and Lust in Middle Age (Hardcover)

I thoroughly enjoyed reading each and every one of the stories told in this book. It was incredibly hard to put down. The various perspectives shared by the contributing authors are simultaneously heartwarming, shocking, fascinating, exhilarating, AND enlightening!