Turning her attention now to older women, she rehashes many of her own experiences of the past 10 years: the illness and death of parents, becoming a grandmother, the desire and the pressure to go on looking good, the continued need for physical intimacy. While this might be a limiting quality in a novelist, many would argue passionately that she has illuminated women’s lives. The characters in her novels with whom we are asked to sympathise are all projections of her the rest are there for them to play off. Perhaps, but a man who divulged caustic secrets about his ex-lovers and family members for the sake of his career (even if that career is writing, for which Jong seems to think exceptions should be made) might also be thought to be acting in poor taste.
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