You Can Be Right (or You Can Be Married)
Author: Dana Adam Shapiro
ISBN: 9781451657784
Publisher: Scribner
Year first published: 01 Oct 2013
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Fast approaching the age when bachelors go from seeming curious to seeming weird, filmmaker Dana Adam Shapiro set out across the country with a tape recorder in search of answers to age-old questions: 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 wanted to know why the honeymoon phase of his relationships never lasted until the actual honeymoon. Believing that more can be learned from failure than from success, he spent years interviewing hundreds of divorced people, living vicariously through the romantic tragedies of others, hoping to learn how to avoid them in his own love life.
The result is a timely treasure trove of marital wisdom. Shockingly intimate, universally relevant, and profoundly personal, this is a page-turning, voyeuristic peek into the private lives of our friends and neighbors—as well as a hopeful investigation of modern love—that is as racy as it is revelatory.
ISBN: 9781451657784
Publisher: Scribner
Year first published: 01 Oct 2013
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Fast approaching the age when bachelors go from seeming curious to seeming weird, filmmaker Dana Adam Shapiro set out across the country with a tape recorder in search of answers to age-old questions: 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 wanted to know why the honeymoon phase of his relationships never lasted until the actual honeymoon. Believing that more can be learned from failure than from success, he spent years interviewing hundreds of divorced people, living vicariously through the romantic tragedies of others, hoping to learn how to avoid them in his own love life.
The result is a timely treasure trove of marital wisdom. Shockingly intimate, universally relevant, and profoundly personal, this is a page-turning, voyeuristic peek into the private lives of our friends and neighbors—as well as a hopeful investigation of modern love—that is as racy as it is revelatory.
