"The man who'd lit up
my board was gone, and the board went dark.
It looked like forever..."
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
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    Contributors:

  • Shaun Assael
  • Eric Bartels
  • Patricia Berry
  • Anne Burt
  • Deborah Caldwell
  • Susan Cheever
  • Michael Corcoran
  • Susan Crandell
  • Alice Elliott Dark
  • Lian Dolan
  • Marek Fuchs
  • Ann Hood
  • Adair Lara
  • Caroline Leavitt
  • Sarah Mahoney
  • Joyce Maynard
  • Kate Meyers
  • Jacquelyn Mitchard
  • Steven Rinehart
  • Crispin Sartwell
  • Helene Stapinski
  • Cameron Stracher
  • Stephan Wilkinson
  • Marion Winik
  
Over the Hill and Between the SheetsAbout the Book
Over the Hill and Between the Sheets:
Sex, Love, and Lust in Middle Age
Edited by Gail Belsky
July 9, 2007
Publisher: Springboard Press
ISBN-10: 0446580791
ISBN-13: 978-0446580793

We used to have few expectations of sex in middle age. That was before being besieged by Desperate Housewives (who have never been "desperate" a day in their lives) and the Sex and the City girls (with their $400 shoes and unbridled passion). Suddenly midlife sex is hot, hot, hot … but beyond the idealized images we get from Hollywood, what does a real-life, grown-up relationship look like today?

The essays in this collection are as varied as the lives and experiences of the writers themselves. Jacquelyn Mitchard finds love in a hammock … with a much younger man. Cameron Stracher tries to escape real life with an ill-fated guys weekend in Vegas. Ann Hood and her husband are torn apart by grief … and held together by passion. Their words and experiences are incredibly varied -- some are explicitly sexy, some are surprisingly sweet, some are wickedly funny, and a few are justifiably angry. But all of the writers are unflinchingly honest as they describe their experiences "over the hill and between the sheets."

What They Are Saying

"A smart, sharp and bracingly candid collection, Over the Hill and Between the Sheets yanks the covers off middle-aged sexuality, and in so doing, lays all of our dirty little secrets bare. Adultery, unplanned pregnancy, vasectomy, phone sex, vibrators and impotence provide the literary grist for a talented group of writers who share not only their most private experiences and longings, but also the hard-won wisdom they have mined from their struggles."
-Yona McDonough, author of The Barbie Chronicles

"Like noisy neighbors in a thin-walled motel, these essays capture your attention and lure you in -- even if you're not, by nature, a snoop."
-Pamela Marin, author of Motherland

"These thoughtful essays from the trenches of middle age will make you laugh, sigh, and sometimes cry."
— Shape magazine

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