The Joy Of Letting Women Down

by Natalie d'Arbeloff

Reviewed by: Stephen J.M. Bray

 

NATALIE D'ARBELOFF WRITES A KEENLY observed study of narcissistically wounded males, and the women who are attracted to them.

But this description seems too technical, and does not do the book justice.

For it is a witty book that enables each of us, male or female, to recognise the bleeding sores within, and then to laugh at our human weakness. It is also a deeply affectionate work, illustrated with illuminating case histories, and delightful cartoons of men and women, mostly in the buff.

Presented as a manual for aspiring worshipped males and the women afflicted by them ‘The Joy of Letting Women Down’, may be used as a guide to determine how and why your relationship pains you, and seems to pain others.

Some men no doubt will buy the book and use it in order to further their seductive technique, thus deepening their pathology. Women, on the contrary will use it as a guide to untangling their heart and apron strings from such men.

That said the book also provides an amusing read for the happily married, whose secret fantasies are expressed so well.

The respectable and self-righteous will hate it, which is an excellent recommendation to buy.

The Joy of Letting Women Down by Natalie d’Arbeloff. Robson Books,
December 2000, 159 pages, Hardback. ISBN 1-86105-376-2