Strictly Casual: Women on Love

by Barbara Gowdy (Contributor), Bonnie Greer (Contributor), Lynne Tillman (Contributor), Laura Hird (Contributor), Caren Gussoff (Contributor), Cris Mazza (Contributor), Caren Gussoff (Contributor), Cris Mazza (Contributor), Barbara Gowdy (Contributor), Lucy Corin (Contributor), Lynne Tillman (Contributor), Brett Ellen Block (Contributor), Lucy Corin (Contributor), Amy Prior (Author), Tina Jackson (Contributor), Pagan Kennedy (Contributor), Elizabeth Graver (Contributor), Bridget O’Connor (Contributor), Anne-Marie Payne (Contributor), A.M. Homes (Contributor), Kadija Sesay (Contributor), Lynne Tillman (Contributor), Brett Ellen Block (Contributor)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $6.83

  The course of true love for the single girl has never been rougher, but there are always good times to be had on the way. Even the most wayward of girls and wickedest of women can become dazed and confused by the complexities of contemporary romance: detached intimacy-at-a-distance chatrooms; our greater pursuit of all things alcoholic; the growing possibility of cross-country relations; ever-mutating domestic arrangements of friends; intrusion by a variety of therapists; separation as a norm; strictly casual ? sometimes casually turning strict, but often becoming disposable ? affairs. The days of an easy Mills-and-Boon ride are over. For a single girl, relationships are becoming a much trickier business, fraught with complications our mothers and grandmothers never could have predicted. Well beyond the rosy stereotypes of chicklit, Strictly Casual shows how pleasure and chaos can make strange bedfellows.