Marry Like a Man: The Essential Guide for Grooms (Plume) [Mass Market Paperback]

Peter N. Nelson (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Plume; First Printing, Ex-Library edition (January 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452267595
• ISBN-13: 978-0452267596
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,977,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Pete Nelson lives with his wife and son in Westchester, New York. He got his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1979 and has written both fiction and non-fiction for magazines, including Harpers, Playboy, Esquire, MS, Outside, The Iowa Review, National Wildlife, Glamour, Redbook. He was a columnist for Mademoiselle and a staff writer for LIVE Magazine, covering various live events including horse pulls, music festivals, dog shows, accordion camps and arm wrestling championships. Recently he was a contributing editor and feature writer for Wondertime, a Disney parenting magazine. He's published twelve young adult novels, including a six-book series about a girl named Sylvia Smith-Smith which earned him an Edgar Award nomination from the Mystery Writers of America. His young adult non-fiction WWII history, Left For Dead (Randomhouse, 2002) about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis won the 2003 Christopher award as was named to the American Library Association's 2003 top ten list. His other non-fiction titles include Real Man Tells All (Viking, 1988), Marry Like a Man (NAL, l992), That Others May Live (Crown, 2000) and Kidshape (Rutledge Hill, 2004). His novel The Christmas List was published by Rutledge Hill Press in 2004. He wrote, with former army counterintelligence agent Dave DeBatto, a four book series of military thrillers, including CI: Team Red (2005), CI: Dark Target (2006), CI: Mission Liberty (2006) and CI: Homeland Threat (2007) published by Time-Warner. A More Unbending Battle; The Harlem Hellfighters' Struggle for Democracy in WWI and Equality at Home, was published in 2009 by Basic Civitas books. His novel, I Thought You Were Dead, will be published by Algonquin in 2010. He also has two CDs out on the Signature Sounds label, the first entitled The Restless Boys Club (1996), the second called Days Like Horses (2000).

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Manly ways to have a girly wedding., August 13, 1997

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R. Byrd "byrdie" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marry Like a Man: The Essential Guide for Grooms (Plume) (Mass Market Paperback)

The author has a Dave Barry writing-style which made this book a relaxing read while planning our wedding. However, he actually brought up relevant, but obscure, issues like checking out the site for potential construction on your wedding day, handling the parking situation, etc.
Few wedding planners actually go over this sort of stuff except in retrospect, and it's nice to see it suggested.

However, these suggestions are presented as something the groom can do while control of the rest of his wedding day is being handled by the women. While the defeatist attitude is amusing in that it goes with the writing-style, it's rather shaking to see in an actual wedding planner.

I recommend this book highly: just be preapred for the overall theme.