HOLDING OUT is a call to arms you won't soon forget. The eye-popping results make for the wisest, funniest, and most provocative book you'll read this year. Now someone is using dirty tricks, underhanded tactics, and outright terror to stop Lauren and her movement. The male power structure - and Lauren's new boyfriend - are miserable about women holding out. A majority of women across America agreed. But it was Lauren's brilliant idea to stage a protest that would hit men where they live: no sex. Worse, the abuser stayed in office, no blame, no shame. In Holding Out, Faulk draws on her own experiences as a single mother and a high-powered executive and consultant and is able to keep a realistic perspective as. Like millions of American women, Lauren Fontaine, thirty-six-year-old Atlanta financial wizard and single mother, was outraged when the wife of a top government leader committed suicide after enduring years of spousal abuse. Not since Erica Jong's Fear of Flying has a novel been as stunningly sexy as it is smart. Faulk updates for the nineties the tale of Lysistrata - who persuaded the women of Athens to withhold sex from their husbands to end a war. In a love story that goes to the very heart of male - female relations, Anne O.
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