Synopses & Reviews
50 Irresistible True Accounts of Love in the Twenty-first Century.
A young woman wryly describes a relationship that races from start to finish almost entirely via text messages.
A Casanova is jilted after an idyllic three weeks and learns the hard way that the woman is, well, just not that into him.
An overweight woman in a sexless marriage wrestles with the rules of desire.
A young man recounts the high-wire act of sharing the woman he loves with both her husband and another boyfriend.
A female sergeant in the Missouri National Guard, fresh from Iraq, tells what she is not supposed to tell about the woman she is not allowed to love.
These are just a few of the people whose stories are included in Modern Love, a collection of the fifty most revealing, funny, stirring essays from the New York Times's popular "Modern Love" column. Editor Daniel Jones has arranged these tales to capture the ebb and flow of relationships, from seeking love and tying the knot to having children and finding love that endures. (Cynics and melancholics can skip right to the section on splitting up.) Taken together, these essays show through a modern lens how love drives, haunts, and enriches us.
For anyone who's loved, lost, stalked an ex, or made a lasting connection, and for the voyeur in all of us, Modern Love is the perfect match.
Review
"Although these snippets are best suited to perusal in the morning paper, the collection is a fun read that requires little commitment and offers just enough emotion, like some of the troublesome loves it relates." Library Journal
Synopsis
A compilation of fifty essays from the popular "Modern Love" column in The New York Times explores the intricacies and complications of negotiating love and loss in the twenty-first century, from a young woman's account of a relationship that moves from start to finish via text messages, to a jilted Casanova who learns that the woman is just not that into him. Original. 40,000 first printing.
Synopsis
In this "best-of" collection of his popular "Modern Love" column that appears in the New York Times, editor Daniel Jones offers 50 true and extraordinary tales of desire, deceit, and devotion.
About the Author
Daniel Jones edits the weekly "Modern Love" column in the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times. He is also the editor of The Bastard on the Couch and the author of After Lucy. He lives with his family in Massachusetts.