Title: Three Women Pdf
"I can't imagine a scenario where this isn't one of the more important - and breathlessly debated - books of the year." (Dave Eggers)
From a thrilling new talent, Three Women is an astonishing work of narrative journalism - reported over eight years - about the sex lives and desires of three ordinary American women.
Lina, a homemaker in suburban Indiana, is a decade into a passionless marriage when she embarks on an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming and transforms her life. Sloane, a glamorous entrepreneur in the Northeast, is married to a man who likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. Maggie, a high school student in North Dakota, begins a relationship with her English teacher that will have extraordinary consequences for them both - as well as the community in which they live.
For nearly a decade, Lisa Taddeo, an award-winning journalist and longtime contributor to New York Magazine and Esquire, embedded herself with three everyday women to write this deeply immersive account of their erotic lives and longings. The result - shocking, powerful, and timely - comes across like George Packer's The Unwinding, but for the state of female desire. Three Women is a major work from an exhilarating new voice.
“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” With this book, our world is being blown open through the compelling truths of three women.A review cannot do justice to the brilliance, beauty, and power of this book.Absolutely flawlessly written and overflowing with insights from how a woman's sexuality is often vulnerably formed by life-defining events in our developmental years, to navigating patriarchal confines regarding female advocacy in sexuality, to how this all translates into our comprehensive life experiences as women.Three Women is a must-read.A dazzlingly virtuosic guided tour of women's desire circa 2019 told via unforgettable characters First off, I have no idea how Lisa Taddeo wrote this book. It is mystery, thriller, art novel, revelation, and stealthy manifesto all rolled into one. Her endnotes say it took her ten years to write it, and I can see why.From the 5000 or so letters women have sent me over the years seeking love advice, I thought I'd have some initiation into the issues of female desire. But this book seems to be something else entirely. The molecular-level excursion into the minds of the three women, their sometimes minute-by-minute thoughts, the earth-cleaving intensity of their deprivation and desire, the cataclysms of momentary fulfillment (followed by "Will it ever happen again?"), the perpetual background noise of inadequacy -- all revelatory. Is this sample representative of all women? Is this really what goes on inside their minds and bodies? The book's called "Three Women", not "All Women", and the poetry and heart of Taddeo's writing have the ring of truth to it, so I'll go with that for now.The three central figures cover a broad range of Americana: an upper-class East Coast restaurateur whose husband likes to watch her with other men; a middle-class unhappily-married Midwestern mother of two reconnecting with her high school flame; and a working-class girl who got involved with her married teacher when she was underage. Taddeo depicts four-dimensional portraits of Maggie, Sloane and Lina, moving through time in the full range of emotional space. These portraits are so convincing that it felt at times that I resided inside the protagonists' heads. This is novelistic writing at its best, except that none of it is fiction.The novelistic treatment can also get a bit heavy-handed. And it's hard for me to believe that it's all pain, bad decisions and anguish out there, punctuated by the occasional furtive orgasm from an illicit source. Fine, love and sex are complicated and all, but surely there's *someone* having some simple fun somewhere?And there's a fourth player in the book: technology. I couldn't help but notice how much of the narrative was shaped by text messages deleted or spied on, cellphones running out of charge, sext and video spicing things up or bringing homes down. Apparently there be dragons out there, and Taddeo's book is artful, compassionate, and convincing cartography of some terra incognita. Read it for a deeper understanding of humans, or just for the thrill of it. -- Ali Binazir, M.D., M.Phil., Happiness Engineer and author of The Tao of Dating: The Smart Woman's Guide to Being Absolutely Irresistible, the highest-rated dating book on Amazon, and Should I Go to Medical School?: An Irreverent Guide to the Pros and Cons of a Career in MedicineYuck. Depressing. I pre-ordered this and paid full price, based on rave reviews from magazines & TV. I expected a sexy, empowering group of stories. I'm sorely disappointed, and struggling to finish the book. Ms. Taddeo is a great writer, and these women deserve to be heard. But PLEASE tell me that the kind of subservient-to-men, self-hating, self-disrespecting, pick-me-no-matter-what thinking that precludes these sorts of experiences are not the norm anymore! If so, we grown women apparently need a swift kick in the behind to wake up and stop giving everyone else power over our lives and loves. There is so much wisdom available to us via modern technology, that we no longer have to live sequestered with whatever familial, religious, cultural or societal boxes have been drawn around us. We have the awesome ability to choose how we engage with what badly behaving lovers do, even those who claim to love us. We can choose to love ourselves better than anyone else does, thereby leading by example and showing people what we won't tolerate, and what we deserve. And this is how we'll teach children to treat themselves and others with true love and respect. They need to see us leading by example. This book is not sexy at all. It's sad. Anyone experiencing anything like these stories needs compassion and help recovering.
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