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Simon & Schuster, October 2009
Trade Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1416537937
ISBN-13: 9781416537939
Description
We've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room. Waited by the phone, changed our plans...But are we in love, or is there something darker at work? In Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, Susan Cheever explores the shifting boundaries between the feelings of passion and addiction, desire and need, and she raises provocative and important questions about who we love and why.
Elegantly written and thoughtfully composed, Cheever's book combines unsparing and intimate memoir, interviews and stories, hard science and psychology to explore the difference between falling in love and falling prey to an addiction. Part one defines what addiction is and how it works -- the obsession, the betrayals, the broken promises to oneself and others. Part two explores the possible causes of addiction -- is it nature or nurture, a permanent condition or a temporary derangement? Part three considers what we can do about it, including a provocative suggestion about how we describe and treat addiction, and a look at the importance of community and storytelling.
In the end, there are no easy answers. "A straight look about some crooked feelings," Desire shows us the difference between the addiction that cripples our emotions, and healthy, empowering love that enhances our lives.
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Browse Inside DesireWicked Local Rochester, September 15, 2011
...Nonfiction book discussion group will start at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15 with “American Bloomsbury” by Susan Cheever. If you think that the writers of 19th century American literature were dull, staid people, think again. This book ...
Columbus Dispatch, September 20, 2009
...I think it's a lot more than that. Q: You talk about second-generation writers -- yourself and Susan Cheever and others. Are you surprised how many there are? A: (Cheever) says we're circus folks. It's funny, but it's true. In France, the ...
Columbus Dispatch, September 20, 2009
...I think it's a lot more than that. Q: You talk about second-generation writers -- yourself and Susan Cheever and others. Are you surprised how many there are? A: (Cheever) says we're circus folks. It's funny, but it's true. In France, the ...
Malaysian Insider, September 1, 2009
...loved one, particularly a child, outweighs the responsibility to tell the truth. That is not how the writer Susan Cheever sees it. To her the desire to tell one?s story is a powerful human urge that cannot be denied: ?I strongly believe ...
Suite101.com, June 9, 2009
...death. You Can?t Always Get What You Need And what did all this information amount to? Notwithstanding Susan Cheever?s sympathetic portrait, it wasn?t a pretty sight. Cheever?s haunting childhood had seemingly relentless psychological ...
The Oregonian, March 17, 2009
...Susan Cheever's name is circulating these days, thanks to the fat new biography of her father by Blake Bailey and her typically outspoken role as a source for it. Getting ...
Hamilton Spectator, January 17, 2009
...context for what is to follow.) Honesty isn't near so titillating, but is so much more fascinating. Susan Cheever, whose latest book (of her 13) is Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, leads off with In Praise of One-Night Stands. It's a ...
George Town Record, January 5, 2009
...Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction By Susan Cheever. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2008. 172 pages. $23. Susan Cheever, who has written several memoirs including Home Before Dark about her father ...
New York Daily News, December 18, 2008
...to have sex like a man.' For the most part, the stories these writers tell bear that out. Susan Cheever, who writes about her sex addiction in her new book, 'Desire,' recounts her days of one-night stands and concludes that the real danger ...
PublishersWeekly.com, December 15, 2008
...difference when it comes to sales, some authors, even well-known ones, are opting for a bare-bones Web presence. Susan Cheever, who was given her first Web site 15 years ago, chose a no-frills, DIY Authors Guild site, where writers pay up to ...
Susan Cheever's Books
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Louisa May AlcottSusan Cheever’s comprehensive and definitive biography sheds new light on the life of Louisa May Alcott, whose work has inspired generations of...Read More
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American BloomsburyA fascinating biography of those who formed, in the mid-19th century, the first American great intellectual and literary community.Read More
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My Name Is BillIn this definitive and groundbreaking biography, acclaimed author Susan Cheever offers a remarkably human portrait of a man whose life and work both...Read More
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As Good As I Could BeBest selling author Susan Cheever explores the difficult terrain of raising happy, stable, successful kids in difficult times, with insightful humor.Read More -
Note Found in a BottleBorn into a world ruled and defined by the cocktail hour, in which the solution to any problem could be found in a dry martini or another glass of...Read More
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Home Before DarkIn Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own...Read More
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