Divorce: An Oral Portrait

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No matter how many divorced people you know, when you face the demoralizing prospect or grim reality, you feel alone in the world. Realizing you're not—that many have undergone precisely your torment—is among this book's many virtues. No divorced or divorcing sufferers will fail to find their own shock, pain and sense of failure and betrayal in these honest, deeply moving accounts by a wide range of men and women, rich and poor, angry and bewildered. They provide the reassurance of community that is needed for ...
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Overview

No matter how many divorced people you know, when you face the demoralizing prospect or grim reality, you feel alone in the world. Realizing you're not—that many have undergone precisely your torment—is among this book's many virtues. No divorced or divorcing sufferers will fail to find their own shock, pain and sense of failure and betrayal in these honest, deeply moving accounts by a wide range of men and women, rich and poor, angry and bewildered. They provide the reassurance of community that is needed for strength and healing; sometimes, it seems, for the will to endure.
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Raoul Lionel Felder
This book offers comforting insights from others walking along the same lonely path.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780595175963
  • Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/28/2001
  • Pages: 332
  • Product dimensions: 8.28 (w) x 11.06 (h) x 0.73 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
Betsy Loomis 12
Billy Palmer 24
George Kirkland 37
Sylvia Buchter 44
Marilyn Charwat 51
Arthur Popilowski 66
Pat Poruznik 77
James Felton 88
Jocelyn Littwack 98
Joanne Webber 107
Alicia Esperito 115
Gary Sandefur 120
Sheila Basset 125
Richard Whaley 139
David Bower 148
Daniel Pascale 156
Paula Holmes 165
Jeanne Morley 170
Harry Strauss 174
Sandra Marcus 185
Robert Mnookin 195
Mary Geoghegan 202
Hank Sanderson 206
Michael Rybakov 211
John Herald 220
Margot Sanders 229
Bradley Offit 237
James Hensley 245
Peter Nuland 256
Pat Morgan 261
Honor Andersen 264
John M. Gottman 270
Peter Burke 281
Calvin Sheehan 284
Jeffrey Cohen 290
Kathy Summers 301
Nita Finn 303
Joseph Steinberg 309
Hendon Chubb 316
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