Synopses & Reviews
HBO Developing 'Viagra Diaries' Comedy Series, Starring Goldie Hawn And Written By Darren Star, based on the novel by Barbara Rose Brooker I love this book Barbara paints a funny as well as poignant picture of dating, romantic love, parenting an adult daughter, and sex after sixty. Barbara tells the truth and this book vibrates with razor sharp wit. Joan Rivers Comedienne Barbara Rose Brooker is fearless. The Viagra Diaries does for single seniors what Helen Gurley Brown 's Sex and the Single Girl and Erica Jong 's Fear of Flying did for the women 's sexual revolution in the sixties and seventies. Through the eyes of the wonderfully witty, wounded and wistfully romantic Anny Applebaum, we discover a world few authors have dared to enter the dating lives of the over sixty set. What we find there is humor, heartache and hope. Brooker 's prose is poetry. She doesn t write this story, she paints it in the subtlest, refined colors imaginable. Bradly Bessey, Co-Executive Producer Entertainment Tonight This is a most timely read in regard to how fast-track medication, relationships and communication impact not only who we are and how we behave but also how one manages to keep a healthy perspective. Edward Asner Actor I stayed up all night to read The Viagra Diaries. I love the characters, the writing, and Anny Applebaum. She is introspective, real, and funny. She inspires me. It 's a great book. Susan Sikaro, Talk Show Host The Susan Sikaro Show
Synopsis
Anny Applebaum is seventy and writes The Viagra Diaries, a San Francisco weekly column researching sixty-plus boomers looking for love. She places ads on Internet singles sites and interviews men over sixty. Is love possible in the Viagra generation? Divorced for thirty years, Anny has given up on love and concentrates on her career. She is looking for controversy and hopes that her column will bring her fame and fortune. On Jdate, Anny meets and interviews Marv Rothstein, a handsome, seventy-five-year-old, emotionally unavailable diamond dealer. Anny is attracted to Marv, and they become involved in a torrid affair. But very soon, Anny discovers that the elusive Marv is a serial JDater prowling the singles sites for younger women, and that he still sees his much younger ex-wife. Anny decides to write a series of columns, modeled after Marv, about a man who can't face age, calling him Mr. X. As Anny's Mr. X columns gain recognition, she struggles with her conflict about Marv, her career hopes, relationships, and her coming of age.
Synopsis
Seventy-year-old Anny Applebaum writes The Viagra Diaries, a San Francisco weekly column researching 60-plus boomers looking for love. She models one series of pieces after a man she meets named Marv, who can't face aging. As the columns gain recognition, she struggles with her conflict about Marv, her career hopes, relationships, and her own coming-of-age.