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"Hilariously brazen and f**king delightful." --John Nichols,
The Milagro Beanfield War
"The funniest essayist I've read since Woody Allen."
--Martin Espada, The Trouble Ball
"Damned funny stories."
--Pagan Kennedy, Black Livingstone
"Darkly funny, wildly confessional. I couldn't put it down." --Mary Mackey, The Notorious Mrs. Winston
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"Mr.Wood has a special gift for heartwarming comedy."
--The New York Times Book Review
As the anti-Vietnam war movement drew to a close, a 26 year-old unknown playwright began an affair with a glamorous older woman, a feminist activist and acclaimed poet/novelist. What she saw in a neurotic, sexually naïve, poorly educated but very sweet guy was apparent to no one, especially him. Told in a wildly self-skewering but oddly sympathetic narrative voice, Wood re-imagines his early years with Marge Piercy in a series of chronologically linked essays, never failing to raise the question that few failed to ask, You’re Married to Her?
With the brazen candor of Toby Young’s How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, and the wicked lunacy of David Sedaris, Wood tells tales of his first true love, who he told his parents were dead; his disastrous affairs; his childhood dependence on speed; running for public office on a lark—and winning—only to find himself responsible for the government of a small town. Thirty years later he’s still married to Her, confident enough to share, and laugh at, what men do when their behavior slips to the level of their self-esteem. |
