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Article: San Francisco novelist Barbara Rose Brooker unveils "The Viagra Diaries"
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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THEY MARCH for peace. They march for politics. But 73-year-old
novelist Barbara Rose Brooker believes that American women must also
march for freedom from age discrimination.
"We should wear our numbers around our necks in protest of ageism
in the U.S.," says Brooker, a San Francisco journalist and author of
"The Viagra Diaries," a new novel about sex and love after 60.
"After 60 is a time to go forward, but all the messages we receive
tell us we must turn the clock back."
Age discrimination is one of many themes in "The Viagra Diaries"
(Llumina), a sort of "Sex in the City" for the senior set. In the
book, which is based on Brooker's dating adventures, Anny Applebaum,
single and 70, pens a ...