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You Can Be Right (Or You Can Be Married)
Dana Adam Shapiro
Looking for Love in the Age of Divorce
Scribner
September 2012
On Sale: September 4, 2012
256 pages
ISBN: 1451657773
EAN: 9781451657777
Kindle: B0061PEERI
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Self-Help
Fast approaching the age when bachelors go from seeming
curious to seeming weird, Oscar-nominated
documentarian Dana Adam Shapiro set out across the country
with a tape recorder in search of modern answers to an
age-old question: Why does love die—and what can we
do to prevent it from happening? It all began
as a self-help journey in the purest sense. A serial
monogamist for more than two decades, Shapiro had just ended
his fifth three-year relationship and wanted to know why the
honeymoon phase never lasted until the actual honeymoon.
Believing that you learn more from failure than from
success, he spent the next four years interviewing hundreds
of divorced people, living vicariously through the romantic
tragedies of others, hoping to become so fluent in the
errors of Eros that he would be able to avoid them in his
own love life. The result is a timely treasure trove
of marital wisdom—a provocative look inside the hearts,
minds, beds, and e-mails of regular people who’d thought
they found “The One” and lived to tell the tales of what
went wrong. Shockingly intimate, universally relevant, and
profoundly personal, this is a page-turning, voyeuristic
peek into the private lives of our friends and neighbors
that is as racy as it is revelatory. But ultimately, You
Can Be Right (or You Can Be Married) is a hopeful
investigation of modern love and a practical guide for any
couple looking to beat the roulette-level odds of actually
staying together forever.
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