Cara and Douglas, a young married couple in the Midwest, are on a reproductive adventure, a journey through love, physical intimacy, childbirth, abortion, and birth control. "A body's all you have to get through life in, " declares the impulsive, loving Cara, finding herself pregnant for a third time. Not at all sure she wants another child, she's already in love with this child, and her relationship with her unborn baby takes on the dimensions of an affair; their rapport, in the intimate space of her own body, begins to ...
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Cara and Douglas, a young married couple in the Midwest, are on a reproductive adventure, a journey through love, physical intimacy, childbirth, abortion, and birth control. "A body's all you have to get through life in, " declares the impulsive, loving Cara, finding herself pregnant for a third time. Not at all sure she wants another child, she's already in love with this child, and her relationship with her unborn baby takes on the dimensions of an affair; their rapport, in the intimate space of her own body, begins to exclude her husband and her other children. Cara finds herself questioning abortion with a startling lack of bias - social, political, or religious. She must decide between disrupting the balance of her established family and her own life, and saying goodbye to a person who will never sit at her dinner table or play with her other children. Cara's spirited grappling with these problems counterpoints Douglas's compassionate analysis as they alternate between being the couple that is their marriage, and being two separate people in two separate bodies and sexes. At once a romance and a comedy of passion, Are You Mine? is an intimate map of the obstacle course of life's choices, a set of hurdles and predicaments so fraught with complication that every woman must negotiate it according to her own needs, circumstances, and desires. By the end of the book, Cara and Douglas, parents and lovers in the middle of America, have achieved an understanding that is at once amusing and troubling, but that is based above all on an affirmation of their own integrity.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Fine in Dust Jacket. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear-contains no tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: literature; ISBN: 080211539x. ISBN/EAN: 9780802115393. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1534.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. inscribed by author, dj in mylar sleeve. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. signed by author without inscription, dj in mylar sleeve. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Previous Owner Bookplate. 6 x 9" Inscribed By Author INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE; a solid copy----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST AND CURTEOUS SERVICE-------------(3/11/21-57046 )
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 293 p. Audience: General/trade. SIGNED but not personalized, so you can enjoy w/o someone else's name! Clean, tight. Sticker on rear flyleaf-security device of original bookstore? ? Not sure. Lightly worn DJ protected in mylar.
