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

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 etiquette yet fears that even the safest sex may not be safe enough.

She shows how educators and ideologues have co-opted the fear of AIDS to promote their own moral agenda.

Roiphe also writes about her sister Emily, who is herself HIV-positive, with a candor that makes Last Night in Paradise as much a personal document as it is a barometric reading of our sexual climate.

Gripping, incisive, and at times incendiary, the result is a work of reportage in the tradition of Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem--a portrait of an era that will be read and debated long after that era has passed.

Resonant . . . I look forward to hearing from Ms. Roiphe again. 
--Jennifer Grossman, Wall Street Journal"

Author: Katie Roipe, Katie Roiphe
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 03/20/1997
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.61h x 5.92w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780316754392

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/15/1996 pg. 44
Publishers Weekly 01/20/1997 pg. 387
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/1997 pg. 128
Booklist 03/15/1997 pg. 1208
Library Journal 03/15/1997 pg. 79
New York Times 06/08/1997 pg. 12
Library Journal 11/15/1996
Library Journal 03/15/1997
Publishers Weekly 01/21/1997