I just read a post written by old roan (Cath) that tickled me a lot and made me think of a book I am reading. "Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a beer gut and a bald head and think they are sexy."

The book is by Phillip Roth and is entitled Exit Ghost. The ghost is lingering desire after prostate surgery renders the hero at seventy both impotent and incontinent.
It explains really more than I want to know about both maladies.

At the beginning of the book, he exchanges his country home for an apartment in Manhattan for a year. He falls in love with the beautiful, cultured and wealthy woman who is one half of the couple who will live in his house. I am already confused by his profession of lust when he doesn't have working equipment. I guess like Fredo, I will just have to say, "But what do I know"

I am going to have to finish the book and find out what happens but I don't think it is up to his earlier work. I wonder it it is autobiographical?