The Country of Marriage

by Anthony Giardina (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $4.91

  Do you want to know what is really going on in your husband's head? Do you want to know what his real desires and discontents, never voiced, are? Then here is a user's manual for wives. Marriage is a foreign land. Those who visit are always altered, often disoriented and occasionally shattered by the experience. Many men, bedded down firmly into the wedded state, find themselves in a curious, emotional paralysis this book describes that paralysis, and married man's inability to act.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.45

  The many embarrassments of the married man -- a Madame Bovary for males. * Want to know what is really going on in your husband's head? Want to know what his real desires and discontents, never voiced, are? Then here is a user's manual for wives. * Marriage is a foreign land. Those who visit are always altered, often disoriented and occasionally shattered by the experience. * Many men, bedded down firmly into the wedded state, find themselves in a curious, cosy emotional paralysis -- this book describes that paralysis, and married men's inability to act. * Psychologically acute, excruciatingly accurate, bewitchingly well written. * The best debut of the season.