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Consent
- A Memoir
- By: Jill Ciment
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Story4 out of 5 stars 87
In this close-up look at the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was seventeen and he was forty-seven and married with two children, Ciment not only reflects on how their love ignited (who leaned in first for that kiss?) but interrogates her 1990s memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself if she told the whole truth when she wrote about their passion back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Intimate Story Well-told
- By Hard2Please on 06-29-24
- Consent
- A Memoir
- By: Jill Ciment
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Very thought provoking
Reviewed: 07-12-24
This book captured me from beginning to end. I, too, at 17 got wrapped up in my teacher and ended up marrying him (although he was just working at a record store when I started dating him and he was only 5 years older- and also ended up in divorce 20 years later). But I wonder, too, about the imbalance of power and how I was overcome with awe when we first dated. However, with any relationship the “every day” seeps in. The simple loving (at first) gestures and the everyday boredom of chores and taking care of each other. She captures some of the essence of what it was like to live every day, and asks the questions “was it cursed because of how it started?” I couldn’t put the book down! The only problem was the plot kept jumping around in time and sometimes hard to follow.
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