Choices: My Journey After Leaving My Husband for Martina and a Lesbian Life - Hardcover

Nelson, Judy Hill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559723289 ISBN 13: 9781559723282

Publisher: Birch Lane Pr, 1996

Synopsis

A former Texas beauty queen traces her decision to leave her husband, her love affair with tennis star Martina Navratilova, and her abortive return to heterosexuality

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

At age 50, having been ignominiously dumped-as the author sees it-by two lovers, tennis star Martina Navratilova and, later, novelist Rita Mae Brown, Nelson tells us here she is learning how to make her own living, experimenting with such careers as writer, TV commentator and tour-group leader. If this bleating memoir is any indication, writing is one field she ought to scrap. Although she testified against Navratilova in her 1993 book, Love Match (coauthored with Susan Faulkner), Nelson again rehashes their seven years together, which culminated in Nelson's lawsuit for a financial settlement (settled out of court for an undisclosed sum). She also burdens readers with recollections of her Texas childhood, her supportive parents, her divorced husband and their sons, Eddie, now a law student, and Bales, an undergraduate. She also tells of two years with novelist Brown, who was herself a one-time lover of Navratilova, and of her current lover. Whether in love or in business, victimization seems to be the theme of Nelson's life, at least as related here. Photos not seen by PW.
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From Booklist:

Nelson examines her much-publicized split with international tennis legend Martina Navratilova within the context of her pre-Martina past as a genteel Southern woman who married a genteel Southern womanizer; her development since the breakup, including the financial settlement with Martina and Nelson's romance and financial entanglements with Martina's previous ex, author Rita Mae Brown; and her newly found inner calm despite all the publicized personal upheaval. Many will flock to this chronicle, hoping to "see" the "true" Martina and the "true" Rita Mae. They may find Nelson rambling, chatty (she refers to men as "fellas" ), and ostensibly focused on the joys of nature and long-term friendship in the face of adversity but as strongly interested in money matters. To offset this obsession, she summarizes the causes she has addressed as a spokeswoman on such gay and lesbian issues as same-sex marriage, homophobia, and lesbian mothers. Whitney Scott

About this edition

• Publisher: Birch Lane Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1559723289
• ISBN 13: 9781559723282
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256