| The Autobiography of My Body | |
| Author: | David Guy |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Dutton |
| Release Date: | 1991 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback) |
| Pages: | 320 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-525-24974-5 |
| Dewey: | 813/.54 20 |
| Congress: | PS3557.U89 A94 1991 |
| Oclc: | 22311079 |
The Autobiography of My Body is a novel by the American writer David Guy set in 1980s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1]
It tells the story of the sexual liberation of Charles Bradford, who after a bad marriage has returned to his hometown to be near his ailing father. There he meets Andrea, a feminist and political activist, and they start a torrid affair that forces him to reexamine his life.[2]
The New York Times called it "an intimate portrait of a man torn between appetite and intellect, a sort of Portnoy's Complaint for gentiles" and a "painstaking explication of habit and longing" in an ambiguous review.[3]