The Longest Date: Life as a Wife Author: Visit Amazon's Cindy Chupack Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0670025534 | Format: PDF
The Longest Date: Life as a Wife Description
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Television producer and writer Chupack (Sex and the City, Everybody Loves Raymond) gifts readers with an inside look at her messy marriage in a memoir that is alternately laugh-out-funny and surprisingly poignant. There are passages that come close to oversharing (attending a sex show together in Thailand is likely outside the milieu of most couples), but Chupack is so upfront about her emotions that she quickly becomes more an old friend than “the author” (this will resonate strongly with fans of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte). Her previous marriage to a man who turned out to be gay is ripe for much hindsight, and the infertility struggles she and current husband Ian endure are especially heartfelt. Chupack is most compelling, however, when she focuses on the ordinary hard truths of coupledom. She talks man caves, old flames, and uneven earning potential and ponders the allure of bad boys, the acquisition of a pet (a St. Bernard!), and blending households. Chupack’s engaging page-turner is a natural for book clubs, and there’s already talk of a TV series. --Colleen Mondor
Review
"Laugh-out-funny and surprisingly poignant."
~Booklist
"A straight-talking, funny and poignant memoir."
~Kirkus Reviews
“The characters on ‘Sex and the City’ (for which Cindy Chupack wrote) could never wait to get together and share the most scintillating details of their romantic triumphs and tribulations. Opening Cindy's book is like getting invited to lunch with those women—the details are keenly observed, laugh-out-loud funny and you never want the meal to end.”
~Cynthia Nixon
“If you need a new best friend—look no further! Cindy Chupack’s wonderful book will make you laugh, cry, and feel less alone.”
~Winnie Holzman
“Cindy's essays are dizzyingly good. They're funny, they're meticulously crafted, and you hardly notice she's doing a comedic equivalent of a ballerina's masterful pirouette. I laughed, I commiserated, I wanted more and more. Marriage is laid bare, negotiations, passion, uncertain leveraging, children, dogs and even boob-jobs are all covered with affection and brutal honesty.”
~Julia Sweeney
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- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Viking Adult; First Edition edition (January 2, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0670025534
- ISBN-13: 978-0670025534
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I never thought I’d meet another woman who admitted to being bored at the Olympics of sexual gymnastics – a Ping-Pong sex show in Thailand. (I refer you to her hilarious chapter “I Find My Husband Rappelling.”) The genius of Cindy Chupack is that she makes you feel like she’s your best and funniest friend. She takes you through the highs and lows of her early married life – the initial romance, the adventure travel, health scares, money issues and the aching pain of infertility (and the “trying nature of trying”).
But in the end, where I most want to be with my new authorial friend is accompanying her on her most mundane activities – walking her oversized dog around her neighborhood; sitting on her couch sipping pumpkin-infused vodkas; and binging on Reality TV. This is because her writing makes me feel that she can find the humor in anything. It doesn’t matter where she finds it, I just want to be there when it happens. This to me, is a little like what the holy grail of seeing marriage as a long date is about. Because, as a long-term couple, if you can’t make sitting on your couch feel as exciting as watching a ping-pong show in Thailand, then it’s not going to be a longest date for very long. If Cindy’s relationship with her husband is as fun, considered and artfully-crafted as her writing, then who doesn’t want to go over to their “house of sand and fur” for dinner?
Her book itself is like a great date. Chupack presents her marriage in its best light (every chapter is impeccably humorous and spiffily written), while still making it seem totally heartfelt, honest and real.
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