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  <title><![CDATA[Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology)]]></title>
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  <default_description>In these intensely personal essays, contemporary writers probe their experiences in and thoughts about one of our most enduring social and cultural institutions. Husbands and wives celebrate marriages that work, mourn those that don't, and write frankly about adultery. Includes essays by Mark Doty, Gerald Early, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cynthia Heimel, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Nancy Mairs, and David Mamet. </default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1999</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Here Lies My Heart: Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't, and What We Find There (A Beacon Anthology)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Catherine Jhee]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Deborah Chasma]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection promises essays on &quot;why we marry&quot; and &quot;why we don't.&quot; Unfortunately, this is a little misleading. There are plenty of essays about why people married, and quite a few about why they cheated or why they got divorced...but only one writer really chooses not to marry...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40259159">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up because I recognized several names and it's an interesting topic. As others have said, though, it's not well-balanced. Either needed more from the unmarried or a different subtitle. The first half dozen or so pieces seemed too short and/or disjointed to accomplish anything, which is o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53529875">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the stories were so &quot;literary&quot; in such a pretentious manner that the stories revealed nothing at all about the state of marriage (or divorce).<br/><br/>This one's not a keeper.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 24 18:42:37 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Essays on Why We Marry, Why We Don't and What We Find There. I like it, though some of the authors seemed to me young and idealistic. I like the essays by authors I have previously read: Mark Doty, Lewis Buzbee. Eagerly awaiting the Willie Morris and David Mamet essays in the book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good range of perspectives in this collection of essays, including an argument for infidelity as a marriage boost. Several pieces just a few pages long. I related to a lot of it, found some of it kind of heartbreaking, and the rest intriguing in a baffling way. It was the first whole book I managed ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33531578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting book that I read for my Sociology of Love class.  Probably worthwhile to go back and read again now that I've grown a bit in the relationship department and am examining my own feelings about marriage.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anthology of essays; introduction by Amy Bloom (author of &quot;Away&quot;)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[read for class a few years ago.]]></body>
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