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Title: First Comes Love by Marion Winik ISBN: 0-679-76555-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (21 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Compelling, beautifully written, a sweet tribute...
Comment: A Christmas gift, off a request list of mine (!), this book was a complete surprise to me. I groaned after reading the back cover with the summary on it... Winik, an occasional commentator on NPR's, "All Things Considered", married the love of her life in New Orleans a number of years ago - an improbable match: he gay, she straight, both heavy drug users. As I said, I groaned reading this but then started the book. In a touching, powerful voice, Winik describes the falling in love, the marriage, the birth of their two boys, and her husband's terrible death from AIDS. The book is inspirational and extremely well written. Winik's narrative and acute observations are a gift. Early in the book she sold me, "When you think how much of a person's beauty is in their eyes, it is astonishing how beautiful they can be with them closed in sleep, perhaps as when you suddenly notice how talented the members of a chorus line are once the stars of the show have left the stage." This is a sad and beautifully written book in tribute to a loved one. Well worth the read.
Rating: 5
Summary: heartbreakingly honest
Comment: Marion Winik's funny, honest, and ultimately gut-wrenching memoir First Comes Love answers, in the end, what true love is. In clear, unwavering prose, Winik tells of her meeting, marrying, having two children with Tony Heubach, a gay ice-skater. Given their differing sexual orientations -- Winik is straight -- sex never was a big part of their relationship. Drugs, however, were, and it is the drugs which first brought the two together and drove them apart as Tony desperately sought any respite from the AIDS that killed him (neither Winik nor their two children ever tested positive). The most accurate phrase I can come up for Winik and Tony is that they were "soul mates", and this compatibility on levels more intimate than intercourse made their relationship work. Involving as it does drug addiction and AIDS, many parts of this book are sad. Winik and Tony, however, shared many good times together, including a number of years when they were off drugs, were happily married with young children, and before Tony became symptomatic. This book deserves a wide audience both for its honesty and for Winik's marvelous writing.
Rating: 2
Summary: I wouldn't say it was perfect....
Comment: but it definitely got my noodle going. And Rebecca LOVED it. and when she loves something, she REALLY loves it. Physically. Emotionally. Biblically. Like the other day she was at ChuckY Cheeses scoping out the hot guys, and some hot young stud was reading First Comes Love, and she got all over him like white on michael. It was scandalous, to say the least. EMBARRASSING! Slap me, I'm in heaven. I'm an asain protestute. Well, i gotta go, talk to you when I come to visit in thanksgiving. Love, Mom.
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Title: The Lunch-Box Chronicles : Notes from the Parenting Underground by Marion Winik ISBN: 0375701702 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Rules for the Unruly : Living an Unconventional Life by Marion Winik ISBN: 0743216032 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Telling by MARION WINIK ISBN: 0679755225 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Couldn't Keep It to Myself : Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters by Wally Lamb ISBN: 006053429X Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Amateur Marriage: A Novel by ANNE TYLER ISBN: 1400042070 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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