Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End

by Katie Roiphe

Book Overview

A brilliant and contrarian voice, a la Mary McCarthy.--Kirkus Reviews Writing with the unerring reportorial instinct she brought to her widely discussed The Morning After, one of our most outspoken cultural commentators chronicles our uneasy passage from the sexual revolution to the new Puritanism in a book that is one part history, one part prophecy, and all provocation. KATIE ROIPHE depicts the inner landscape of a generation that practices condom...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316754390
• ISBN13: 9780316754392
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A good read...

It's been about two years since I read this, but I remember the book as being dark, brooding, meandering and questioning rather than preachy. Rophie should be admired for not pretending to have all the answers on this difficult and complicated topic.I read the book in one sitting, the writing was that good. I know it's hard to find a positive review of this book on the I-Net, but I liked it a lot even if I'm left now with an impression rather than specific info gleaned. I'll definitely read her next book because even if I disagree with her on some points I think she's an important writer worth listening to.

An observation of a silent true(ism)

She does have a point, but the problem is not definable. The nations growing social conservative mood has no true definable center, it is a movment of two seemingly diffrent forces, a need for a force beyond lust (yet is also a part of lust) and a love of preaching what is "right". The virus of the SAFE is covered here with Kate's eyes wide open.