Description: An honest, brilliant look at one man's marriage and the view it affords for examining relationships between men and women across our culture.
Review Quotes: "In the best Rousseauesque tradition of confessionalism, the person most shamingly exposed is the author. It's brave of Shields to parade himself as cravenly as he does, and he covers a lot of ground along the way. . . . What gives the book its frisson is the sound of an intellectual talking dirty. High/low; private/public: the demarcations disappear. Above all, there's his curiosity and his openness." --Blake Morrison, The Guardian