Dream Lovers: Women Who Marry Men Behind Bars [Paperback]

Jacquelynne Willcox-Bailey (Author)

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Publication Date: November 1, 1999

"I didn't go out on Saturday or Sunday nights, because I'd want to be fresh to visit him the next day. All that was missing for me were the bars on my windows."

Imagine if the most important relationship of your life was restricted to daily phone calls, censored letters and weekly cuddles in a crowded visiting room. In "Dream Lovers: Women Who Marry Men Behind Bars", prison couples reveal intimate details of their lives together - how they met, how they love and, for some, how they cope with the tragic aftermath of a marriage that everyone said was doomed from the start.

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I didn't go out on Saturday or Sunday nights, because I'd want to be fresh to visit him the next day. All that was missing for me were the bars on my window.Imagine if the most important relationship of our life was restricted to daily phone calls, censored letters and weekly cuddles in a crowded visiting room. In Dream Lovers, prison couples reveal intimate details of their lives together 'how they met, how they love and, for some, how they cope with the tragic aftermath of a marriage that everyone but them said was doomed from the start.

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Wakefield Press (November 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 186254381X
• ISBN-13: 978-1862543812
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,860,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Read, August 12, 2005

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Mandy Grace (Alabama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dream Lovers: Women Who Marry Men Behind Bars (Paperback)

I found this book to be very interesting in that it gave me a better understanding of why a woman would choose to dedicate herself to someone that is incarcerated for a long time. I came away with the knowledge that the reasons a person would enter into this type of relationship is as varied as the reasons as to why a person would enter any type of relationship. The book was shocking and very blunt. Even though it was written in Australia you realize prisons are pretty much the same everywhere, and people are pretty much the same everywhere. I wish the author would have included stories of people who had success in this type of relationship. Working with incarcerated individuals I know that there are some who are respectful, deceit, God-fearing people who have good relationships with free world spouses. But maybe she chose the more negative stories to sell books. I would recommend this book if you want to learn more on the subject of prisoners and their free world partners. But keep in mind that not every relationship of this type is depicted in these stories.