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About the Book, THE OTHER WOMAN
She’s been called the harpy, the Jezebel, the Lorelei, the bitch…and other choice names. In truth, she is someone’s daughter, mother, friend, confidante. She seduces husbands, breaks up marriages, and occasionally becomes a stepmother. Sometimes, she is even a victim. So who is this creature who arrives like a wrecking ball to destroy lives and families? She is the Other Woman—but she’s only half the story.
For every Other Woman, there is a wife or girlfriend whose relationship has been devastated—or surprisingly—blissfully liberated. Some women find themselves playing both roles during the course of a lifetime.
With 21 insightful essays from the list of America’s most respected and award-winning female authors, this collection explores the highly personal, sometimes anguished, sometimes hilarious, but always compelling experiences of women on both sides of these highly charged and emotional situations.
About the Author, VICTORIA ZACKHEIM
Victoria spent her childhood in Los Angeles (Compton) and graduated from UCLA. In 1990, she fulfilled a lifelong dream and went to Paris, with the intention of remaining for three months. Five years later, she returned to the San Francisco area and completed her first novel, The Bone Weaver, published in 2001.
Victoria is now a book editor and an instructor for the UCLA Writers’ Program (Writing Your Life in Fiction) and for Tunxis Community College (Farmington, CT). Her book reviews have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle and many online sites. The author writes and records commentaries for The Mimi Geerges Show (Satellite XM radio and public radio stations) about writing, writers, and life in the United States) and is a frequent keynote speaker for non-profit organizational and academic events. She is story developer and writer of the documentary film The Woman Who Saved Our Children: Frances Kelsey and the Story of Thalidomide (Rosemarie Reed Productions), scheduled for a 2008 release.
Her second novel, Murder On the Boards, is a work-in-progress.
Victoria is editor of two anthologies: The Other Woman (Warner Books, June 2007) and For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance (Seal Press/Avalon, December 2007).
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Caroline
You mentioned in your article, "Up Up Up…And then down?," that the most difficult part after getting an agent was approaching well known authors to ask them the very personal question, "Have you ever had an affair or been related to an affair?" How did you manage to ask that question and get such a great response?
Everyone, please do remember to refresh your page before posting your next comment/question.
Do you think that women who are the mistresses can ever be satisfied with their lot?
This question is for anyone reading the chat who has read the book, too!
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977109558
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