Magnetism

By: Jacqueline Gay Walley

An older woman on a quest to find her eros and to be desired. A woman over sixty wants her sexuality, her eros back. It opens with the main character going on a date alone, walks herself along the High Line in New York, shops for a book at The Strand and goes to hear Mahler. She remembers the past when she had that juiciness, and she finds lovers in the present, but something is amiss. She has a friendship with a female holocaust survivor who lives upstairs, who has that eros, even over 80, just in her being. The older woman dies, but in the lessons she leaves behind, the narrator finally finds that eros within her attitude toward life.Award: Leapfrog Press FinalistI found Magnetism poignant with poetic imagery running wild throughout, fresh, original, literate without the stench of pedantry, sensual and lively as Henry Miller only more blunt and much funnier-its sensibility surpasses the merely female or contemporary: Walley explains what being an intelligent, curious person is to her fellow intelligent curious readers. --- Steven Goldleaf, Author of Studies on Richard Yates, John'O'Hara (Four novels) and What Gatsby Saw.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1955314136
• ISBN13: 9781955314138
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: IML Publications, LLC
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 21 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher