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“I love this book! Barbara paints a funny as well as poignant
picture of dating, romantic love, parenting an adult daughter, and sex
after sixty. Barbara tells the truth and this book vibrates with razor
sharp wit!”—Joan Rivers, Comedienne
“Barbara Rose Brooker is fearless. Her The Viagra Diaries does
for single seniors what Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl
and Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying did for the women’s sexual
revolution in the sixties and seventies. Through the eyes of the
wonderfully witty, wounded and wistfully romantic Anny Applebaum, we
discover a world few authors have dared to enter – the dating lives of the
over sixty set. What we find there is humor, heartache and hope. Brooker's
prose is poetry. She doesn’t write this story, she paints it in the
subtlest, refined colors imaginable.”—Bradly Bessey, Co-Executive
Producer, Entertainment Tonight
“This is a most timely read in regard to how fast-track medication,
relationships and communication impact not only who we are and how we
behave but also how one manages to keep a healthy perspective.”—Edward
Asner
“I raced through Barbara Brooker’s moral tale of a 70-year-old pilgrim
fighting for her life. Her hero (I mean Anny) wants both: love (and not
just sex) and art. I laughed out loud at her trials, for Brooker’s story
is moral and satiric, political and comic. At times I thought of Chaucer
and always I applauded Brooker’s perfect ear for the speech of old men and
ingenues, her poetic language and her guts.”—Phyllis Koestenbaum, Poet,
Doris Day and Kitschy Melodies: Prose Poems
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About the Book:
Anny Applebaum is seventy and writes “The Viagra
Diaries,” a San Francisco weekly column researching sixty-plus boomers
looking for love. She places ads on Internet singles sites and
interviews men over sixty. Is love possible in the Viagra generation?
Divorced for thirty years, Anny has given up on love and concentrates
on her career. She is looking for controversy and hopes that her
column will bring her fame and fortune.
On Jdate, Anny meets and interviews Marv Rothstein, a
handsome, seventy-five-year-old, emotionally unavailable diamond
dealer. Anny is attracted to Marv, and they become involved in a
torrid affair. But very soon, Anny discovers that the elusive Marv is
a serial JDater prowling the singles sites for younger women, and that
he still sees his much younger ex-wife. Anny decides to write a series
of columns, modeled after Marv, about a man who can't face age,
calling him Mr. X. As Anny’s Mr. X columns gain recognition, she
struggles with her conflict about Marv, her career hopes,
relationships, and her coming of age.
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