Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Paperback)

by Daniel Jones (Editor)

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Product Description
50 Irresistible True Accounts of Love in the Twenty-first Century.

A young woman wryly describes a relationship that races from start to finish almost entirely via text messages.

A Casanova is jilted after an idyllic three weeks and learns the hard way that the woman is, well, just not that into him.

An overweight woman in a sexless marriage wrestles with the rules of desire.

A young man recounts the high-wire act of sharing the woman he loves with both her husband and another boyfriend.

A female sergeant in the Missouri National Guard, fresh from Iraq, tells what she is not supposed to tell about the woman she is not allowed to love.

These are just a few of the people whose stories are included in Modern Love, a collection of the fifty most revealing, funny, stirring essays from the New York Times’s popular “Modern Love” column. Editor Daniel Jones has arranged these tales to capture the ebb and flow of relationships, from seeking love and tying the knot to having children and finding love that endures. (Cynics and melancholics can skip right to the section on splitting up.) Taken together, these essays show through a modern lens how love drives, haunts, and enriches us.

For anyone who’s loved, lost, stalked an ex, or made a lasting connection, and for the voyeur in all of us, Modern Love is the perfect match.

About the Author
DANIEL JONES edits the weekly “Modern Love” column in the Sunday Styles section of The New York Times. He is also the editor of The Bastard on the Couch and the author of After Lucy. He lives with his family in Massachusetts.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (January 23, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307351041
• ISBN-13: 978-0307351043
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #473,522 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Honest Love, March 21, 2007

By	Linda C. Sellers - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book, Modern Love: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion gives the reader, within a few minutes of reading, the chance to enter the completely honest mind of another person telling a "love story." Often insightful to the human condition and the quirks of happenstance that happen in the lives of real people. Like a secret history you'd only tell a friend, this book is full of them! Just imagine fifty unusually honest secrets you've never heard before all about modern life and love.

4.0 out of 5 stars Modern Love for new lover, June 3, 2007

By	New Lover (USA) - See all my reviews

I would recommend this book to all who are interested in all aspects of "LOVE": woman, man, marriage, partnership, childbirth, feelings, concepts, etc. The stories are honest and real. Reading then in the first person really engages me into the stories. I gained a lot of perspective of what's love in the 21 centry.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars review, plus responding to Sue H., March 25, 2007

By	J. Just (Connecticut) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

...um, well I'm not accomplished at ALL as a writer and I made it in - That's the first piece I've ever written that was published in a national publication and certainly the only piece of my writing that's ever been in a book...so the bios just make us all SEEM accomplished I think. And Dan Jones is a really really good editor - great to work with.

I am so glad to be in such good company - and I loved reading the stories all over again, even though they were quite memorable the first time I read them in the NYT. I am sure there will be another collection out anon...Jennifer J.