A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century

“Intense, controlled, a memoir-as-fever-dream.” –The New York Times “It’s a rare pleasure to be in the hands of a memoirist both old enough and good enough to wring this kind of coherence from life’s chaos.” –The New York Times Book Review “Like a string of Chinese firecrackers.” –Washington Post “This woman traffics in the truth.” –Anne Lamott “A wholly original, beautiful book.” –Michael Downing, author of Life with Sudden Death “The vividness of those people and the hard-to-describe implicit sanity and moral clarity that underly the always-about-to-get-out-of-control voice gets to feel funny, sane, heartbreaking, and so deeply intelligent … It is just brilliant, and true.” –Robert Hass, author of Now & Then

Jane Vandenburgh is the award-winning author of two novels, Failure to Zigzag and The Physics of Sunset, as well as Architecture of the Novel, A Writer’s Handbook and The Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century, A Memoir. She has taught writing and literature at U. C. Davis, the George Washington University, and, most recently, at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, Callfornia. A native of Berkeley, she has returned to live with her family in the West, and with Wayne Thiebaud, her dog.

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