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.
Powerful and relatable. This book is insightful and brutal in its truth. I believe that most women can relate to one or all three of these women and their stories. Whether that be remembering the intense feelings of being a teenage girl, or being attracted to someone simply because of the intensity with which they’re attracted to you. Or maybe you’ve been with someone you know isn’t good for you, who doesn’t feel for you with the depth that you feel for them, but you keep going back, because how good it feels when you’re together. Maybe you feel the pressure to be exactly what men (a man) like(s)- to be put-together, sexy, and smart. To never have cracks to show that you have individual wants, needs, and desires that vary from their own. To never show that you have weaknesses or need anything beyond the minimum of what they will give.I think this book is relatable in the strongest sense of the word.Remarkable “Women shouldn’t judge one another’s lives, if we haven’t been through one another’s fires.”The three women in the book all have different stories but are similar in the sense that they are all feeling unfulfilled with their current situations.I got very emotionally attached to all of these women, I was more invested in two of the three but every single story was compelling and upsetting at the same time. Each chapter shocked me a little more and I found myself frustrated with the feeling that the happiness of these women’s lives was so dependent on the actions of the men around them.It was very easy to get invested in the stories and the writing does not make you feel like you are reading a work of non-fiction. I will say that if you don’t like sexual content in your books that you may want to pass on this one. Otherwise I completely recommend this book.More reviews on Instagram @unshelvededitionA 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 Medicine
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