First Comes Love
A Memoir
$38.74
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
27 May 1997
Summary
The 30th Anniversary Edition of this classic memoir includes a new introduction by the author.
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by the longtime All Things Considered commentator charts the trajectory of a marriage so impossible that it became inevitable.
“Gritty, funny, moving, horrific, outrageous—and, above all, fearlessly honest…. ultimately a joyous story.” - Newsday
When Marion Winik fell in love with Tony Heubach during a wild Mardi Gras in …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679765554 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679765557 |
| Author: | Marion Winik |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 1997 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
“Gritty, funny, moving, horrific, outrageous—and, above all, fearlessly honest…. ultimately a joyous story.” —Newsday
Decidedly unfaint-hearted… Marion Winik is resilient, hardy, unfazable; this self-described suburban wannabe is a frontier woman in disguise.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A true story stripped of fine writing or cheap analysis…. I won’t be the only reader who can’t put it down.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Beautiful … intense and intimate.” —Washington Post Book World
About The Author
Marion Winik
MARION WINIK is heard regularly on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” She was the recipient of a 1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction and has been voted Favorite Local Writer by the readers of the Austin Chronicle for four consecutive years. First Comes Love won the Violet Crown Award for Best Book by an Austen Writer, 1996, from the Austen Writer’s League. The author of Telling, she lives in Austin, Texas, with her two sons.
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