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I'm No Saint : A Nasty Little Memoir of Love and Leaving
I'm No Saint A Nasty Little Memoir of Love and Leaving
Author: Elizabeth Hayt
     Shouldn't I take what I could when I could get it?  I'd already checked off the boxes of wife and mother.  Now was my time for spontaneity and irresponsibility - and to check off my own box.  —      Forty-five minutes later, I opened my door in a black silk La Perla slip,...  more »

     Combining the voyeuristic pleasures of Sex and the City and the dark humor of Desperate Housewives, Elizabeth Hayt's nakedly honest memoir charts a precarious journey from marriage to sexually liberated single-womanhood - and chronicles the story of a woman who dared to satisfy the most emotionally and physically demanding of lovers:  herself. 

     While growing up in Great Neck, Long Island, Hayt yearned to escape both the conformity of suburban life and the stranglehold of her profoundly troubled family.  In spite of her secret desire to be "a bulletproof bitch," at the age of twenty-five Hayt found herself reluctantly walking a traditional matrimonial path with her Ivy League sweetheart, Charlie.  And although he was the image of every parent's dream son-in-law, Hayt feared that the suffocating confines of marriage were turning her into her own repressed mother.  Hayt fantasized about leaving, but ten years after she said "I do," it would be her attorney husband who would leave her, taking her pride with him. 

     Now a thirty-five-year-old single mother, Hayt started over on her own terms.  Diving headlong into her insecurities to discover what made her psychically and sexually tick, she embarked on a series of sizzling, uninhibited affairs with some of Manhattan's most notorious - and sometimes, strangest - bachelors, including the ruthless art dealer whose preferred sexual position was in front of a televised boxing match, the billionaire political wannabe who kissed like a rabbit gnawing on a carrot, and the record mogul who commanded a striptease while he satisfied himself.  After years of feeling as if she had prematurely exited the sexual revolution and the age of raging, material excess, she had finally entered the A-list world of palatial apartments, exclusive parties, plastic surgery, and secret substance abuse. 

     Yet through all the bed-hopping sexcapades, Hayt needed to find a way to reconcile her burgeoning independence with her traditional upbringing.  How she achieves this is what makes this book so remarkable, as Hayt redefines the expectations of contemporary womanhood while reinvigorating sexual awakening for a new generation. 

Elizabeth Hayt is a freelance journalist whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle.  While on romantic sabbatical, she lives with her three dogs in New York City.
ISBN-13: 9780446531948
ISBN-10: 0446531944
Publication Date: 10/3/2005
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Warner Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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this book is way too personal and as a mother i dont know how can you write all those sexual nasty things in your memoir knowing that one day your son is going to read them ( or somebody is going to tell him!) Many parts of the book are very funny.
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