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Title

Remind me again why I married you / Rita Ciresi.

Author

Ciresi, Rita.

Publication

New York : Delacorte Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

291 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

• "It's Valentine's Day, and Lisa Strauss, nee Diodetto, is spending it playing dutiful wife at a $100-a-head benefit instead of in bed with Eben, her hardworking husband of (is it only?) five years. Once upon a time, Lisa, too, was a member of the corporate workaday world - until she fell in love with her boss (Eben), gave birth to a cute but rambunctious son, and gradually morphed into a stay-at-home mom.
• "Suddenly, she has a pen name, and an excerpt of her book appears in Playboy. In between revising chapters, Lisa is trying - and failing miserably - to get pregnant again. She's going house-hunting with Cynthia Farquhar, the gorgeous blond Realtor/divorcee who has become her closest confidante (and the object of Eben's secret fantasies). And she's wondering if this is all marriage is and can ever be: bonded for life to a man who may never again be the red-hot lover of their pre-marriage union.
• As their lives begin to bizarrely mirror aspects of Lisa's book...as marital life as they know it teeters on the edge of utter chaos, Lisa and Eben search - apart and together - for the answer to the question that has plagued husbands and wives since time immemorial: Can love survive marriage?"--BOOK JACKET.
• In fact, he just may turn out to be the conflicted protagonist of her novel - a devoted family man whose moral fiber may not be strong enough to withstand the slings and arrows of lust and temptation.
• Somewhere in the mix Lisa also is a writer with ambitions of fame and glory, but those dreams seem to be shrinking, along with her sex life. That is, until a hotshot literary agent shows interest in Lisa's magnum opus.".

ISBN

0385335849

LCCN

2002035097

OCLC

ocm50767887

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries