Single in America: Before Texting & Tinder

The authors have revised an anthology of single men and women from many walks of life originally created in 1989 from interviews and preserved as if in a time capsule before the dawn of the Internet age, before the Cloud, before smartphones, online dating or Tinder. While their stories reflect that period they also show that the underlying dynamics of dating, of looking for love and union, of coping with being alone have changed very little. The human verities are unmuddied and clear, befor...