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In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s when she was a teenager and he was married with two children, Jill Ciment reflects on how their love ignited and interrogates her 1996 memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself whether she told the whole truth back then. What did truth look like to her in the era of love-bead curtains, when no one asked who was served by the permissibility of May-December romance? With new understanding about the imbalance of power between an older man and a minor girl, Ciment re-explores the erotic wild ride and intellectual flowering that shaped an improbable but blissful marriage that lasted for forty-five years, until her husband's death at age ninety-three.
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"Consent does not complete or cancel out Half a Life; in tracing the evidence of pentimento, it leaves its own traces that tamper and reveal."
"A memoir acknowledging that her marriage began with a serious transgression and weighing this against everything else it gave her."
"A hot bullet of a memoir."
"Ours is evidently an age of reappraisals, but this latest reappraisal itself invites reappraisal, for it is eager to undermine its own authority ..."
"Provide a pointed reminder that all writing is selective, and memoirs are certainly no exception ..."
"By turns stinging, hilarious, and poignant, this is rare and luminous testimony to creativity, commitment, and love over all."
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