title: Naked on the Page: The Misadventures of My Unmarried Midlife
author:  Jane Ganahl 
description: Ganahl, a 49-year-old <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> columnist, had almost everything a woman could want: financial stability, a flourishing career, an adoring daughter and the kind of sparkling social life even Dorothy Parker would envy. What she didn't have, though, was a boyfriendand as she looked down the barrel of middle age, when every man she knew was either married, interested only in (much) younger women or otherwise unacceptable, this one-time male-magnet wondered if anyone would ever look at her lustfully again. Ganahl's writing is sassy, fiery (the prose equivalent of her red hair and love of rock and roll), and many readers will nod in amused sympathy as she recounts her disastrous forays into the world of online dating or laments the difficulty of looking sexy in a sensible heel. But the book isn't all self-deprecating humor. Reeling from the one-two punch of her mother's and sister's deaths and struggling to accept her daughter's increasing independence, Ganahl tackles the bigger issues as well. Ganahl may be occasionally, infuriatingly self-defeating, but more often she's pluck and charm personified. Readers, meanwhile, will enjoy Ganahl's romantic portrayal of her beloved San Franciscoa character as alive and fully developed as any in the book. <i>(Feb.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  A Fresh Taste
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
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  American Taboo Press
  
  
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  Smashwords Edition
  
  
  First International Edition, April 2011
  
  
  Copyright © 2011 by American Taboo Press
  
  
  All rights reserved under International and
  
  
  Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States
  
  
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  Table of Contents
  
  
    
  
  
  Poor Little
  
  
  Middle Class Working Girl
  
  
    
  
  
  The Audition
  
  
    
  
  
  Wife Obsessed With Being Better
  
  
  Than the Porno Girl
  
  
    
  
  
  How to Enjoy a Subway
  
  
  Stalker
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  Poor Little Middle Class
  
  
  Working Girl
  
  
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  I often think of each hotel I stay at as
  
  
  just another bedroom in my own vast collection of private
  
  
  residences spread around the world. What woman doesn’t believe that
  
  
  her life isn’t always on its way to a scenario of extravagance made
  
  
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