The Wild Oats Project
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-29021-4
Writers: Robin Rinaldi
Title: The White Oats Project
Subtitle: One Woman's Midlife Quest in Passion at Any Cost
Place of publication: New York, NY
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Girroux (Sarah Crighton Books)
Year of publication: 2015
Format: 140x315 mm
Pages: ix_287
Binding: hardbound in colour dust covers designed by Jennifer Carrow
Jacket lettering: Esther Wu
Jacket photograph: woman by Phillip Suddick/Getty Images; sky by Johnner Images/Getty Images
Writer's photo on the inside back cover: Rhonnell M. Adalin
Weight: 426 gr.
Original price: USD 26.00
Supplier:ThriftBooks - Motor City
Order Number: 66729630
Order Shipped: 14h May 2020
Entry Number: 2020006
Entry Date: 16th July 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The project was simple: Robin Rinaldi, a successful magazine journalist, would move to a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four, or that she was married to a man she'd been in love with for eighteen year. What followed –a year of abandon, heartbreak, and unexpected revelation - is the topic of the riveting memoir, The Wild Oats Project.
Monogamous and sexually cautious her entire adult life, Rinaldi never planned on an open marriage – her priority as she approached midlife was to start a family. But when her husband insisted on a vasectomy, something snapped. If I'm not going to have children, she told herself, then I'm going to have lovers. During the week, she would live alone, seduce man (and women), attend erotic workshops, and have wall-banging sex. On the weekend, she would go home and be a wife. Her marriage provided safety and love, but she also needed passion, and she was willing to go outside her marriage to find it.
At a time when the bestseller lists are topped by books about erotism and the shifting role of women, this brave, brutally honest memoir explores how our sexuality defines us, how it relates to maternal longing, and how we must walk the line between loving others and staying rue to ourselves. Like the most seating memories – Cherly Strayed's Wild, Mary Karr's The Liars ' Club – The Wild Oats Project challenges our sensibilities, yielding truths that we all can recognize but that few would dare write down.
