Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807062173)

This book is for the once, never, and much married. For believers and skeptics, love's fools and love's thieves. It is for people with long memories and long histories and for people who reinvent themselves in every new town, new decade, new relationship. This book is for everyone whose heart lies where it should, where it shouldn't, and, in the end, where it must. -Amy Bloom, from the Foreword

In these intensely personal essays, contemporary writers probe their experiences in and thoughts about one of our most enduring social and cultural institutions. Husbands and wives celebrate marriages that work, mourn those that don't, and write frankly about adultery. Includes essays by Mark Doty, Gerald Early, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cynthia Heimel, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Nancy Mairs, and David Mamet.

Author: Amy Bloom
ISBN-10: 0807062170
ISBN-13: 9780807062173
Publisher: Beacon Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1999
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.58w x 0.55d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/1999 pg. 263
Library Journal 04/15/1999 pg. 130