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Title: Love's Labors: A Story of Marriage and Divorce by Daniel Roche ISBN: 1-57322-067-1 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (9 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Great lesson
Comment: This was really good reading to me because of his candid writing. How he felt about what was going on in the marriage and the embarrassing things he allowed in the marriage. Very honest and well written.

Rating: 5
Summary: We don't need another hero
Comment: Interesting how the Amazon reviews divide down the middle between "marvelous book" and "boo," with no middle ground. Order this book now and relax: the right answer is "marvelous." I read it front to back the day I received it. Why? Because the positive comments in the other reviews are all true, and the negatives miss the point. Roche superbly captures his experiences of love, marriage, divorce, neither aggrandizing them as universal nor as unique. Male or female, you will probably identify with Roche in some ways. He has set out to present himself as a person, not just a hero, and life at its best (like yours) as a largely well-intentioned medley of experiences, not a prefab script. I'm buying copies for friends, knowing they will thank me.

Rating: 5
Summary: An insightful and moving account
Comment: Roche's story is one so common today and yet so infrequently commented on with the insight and thoughtfulness that it receives here. How many of us haven't struggled to balance a marriage and individual identities? How many of us haven't felt pulled in too many directions, slowly and painfully trying to figure out what is right for ourselves and our partners? This book is not an over-the-top tear-jerker. It is not tell-all revenge memoir. Intead, it is a subtle and beautiful and funny reconsideration of what one man underwent in his efforts to be the best husband he could be. It didn't work out in Roche's first marriage, but it's clear by the end of the book that it wasn't for lack of trying or lack of will. The reasons for his divorce were so numerous, so complex, and the book's great strength is that those complexities are laid out for us with articulation and humor and patience. This is a book that speaks to its readers softly but powerfully. I was moved by it and instructed by it. I'm glad I read it.