Elizabeth Benedict est une romancière renommée dont les œuvres explorent les complexités des liens humains et la vie intérieure des personnages avec une profonde empathie. Son écriture se caractérise par une observation perspicace et une capacité exquise à saisir les nuances subtiles de l'émotion. Benedict écrit avec clarté et perspicacité, offrant aux lecteurs de profondes réflexions sur le tissu de l'expérience humaine. Ses contributions sont appréciées pour leur mérite littéraire et leur résonance émotionnelle.
Focusing on the craft of writing, this resource delves into the intricacies of crafting authentic and engaging sex scenes. Elizabeth Benedict addresses a range of topics, including first encounters, marital intimacy, and the complexities of infidelity, all while considering the impact of contemporary issues like AIDS. With insights and guidance, it serves as an essential tool for writers aiming to portray sexuality with depth and sensitivity.
In this razor-sharp novel of marriage and divorce gone awry, Elizabeth Benedict navigates the turbulent waters of love, power, and vengeance with biting wit and penetrating insight.When the Manhattan psychotherapist Eric Lavender meets the sexy, stylish lawyer Colleen O'Brien Golden, his bachelor life suddenly loses its long-standing appeal. Soon he moves to Scarsdale to join Colleen and finds a life of domestic bliss as a husband and father with a new baby and an adorable stepdaughter. But Eric's suburban oasis is threatened when a legal conflict of interest with Colleen turns up disturbing evidence of a hidden past.
These twenty-seven hair pieces offer up reflections and revelations about family, race, religion, ritual, culture, motherhood, politics, celebrity, what goes on in African American kitchens and at Hindu Bengali weddings, alongside stories about the influence of Jackie Kennedy, Lena Horne, Farrah Fawcett, and the Grateful Dead.
Sophy Chase finds herself in a whirlwind of emotions when she receives shocking news about her almost ex-husband's sudden death. While navigating her new relationship with an art dealer and his children, she is forced to confront her past and return to Swansea Island. There, she faces her late husband's complex family dynamics, including his twin daughters and their challenging mother. The story blends humor with poignant themes of love, loss, and the complexities of family ties.
"With wisdom, wit, and novelistic storytelling, Elizabeth Benedict revisits life as a cancer patient and committed hypochondriac. When she discovers multiplying lumps in her armpit, she confronts her terror, interspersed with self-mocking levity, as she indulges in "natural remedies," among them chanting Tibetan mantras, drinking shots of wheat grass juice, and eating chocolate babka. She tracks the progression of her illness from muddled diagnosis to debilitating treatment, gathering sustenance from literature, her family, and an assortment of urbane, ironic friends, including her fearless "cancer guru." In brief chapters with startling titles--"Was it the Krazy Glue?" and "Not Everything Scares the S*** Out of Me"--Benedict poses existential questions: Is there a cancer personality? Can trauma be passed on generationally? Can cancer discourse be stripped of its warlike metaphors? How do doctors' own fears influence their comments to patients? Is there a gendered response to illness? Why isn't illness one of literature's great subjects? Would being a mother have changed her life as a writer and hypochondriac? Post diagnosis, Benedict asks: Which fear is worse--the fear of knowing or the reality of knowing?" -- Inside front cover
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