How to Be a Husband - Tim Dowling

How to Be a Husband

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
304 Seiten
2015
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-752768-7 (ISBN)
13,70 inkl. MwSt
The much-loved Guardian columnist asks what it takes to make a husband, and looks to his own married life to provide the answer.*


*Anything resembling advice should be taken at reader’s own risk.


You’ll never get divorced if you never get married. Not even your granny minds if you live in sin anymore. And if you’re single you can choose curtains without somebody else butting in. So why bother with marriage? It can’t just be an easy way round having to buy your own deodorant.


Guardian columnist Tim Dowling is a husband of some twenty years. His marriage is resounding proof that even the most impossible partnership can work out for the best. Some of the time.


So while this book is called ‘How To be a Husband’, it’s not really a how-to guide at all. Nor is it a compendium of petty remarks and brinkmanship – although it contains plenty of both. You may pick up a few DIY hints. You might learn that while marriage is founded on love, it endures through bloody hard work. Most likely it will make you whimper with the laughter of painful recognition.


‘How To be a Husband’ is a cautionary tale about throwing caution to the wind. It’s the strange romance of two people consenting to share a roll-on. It’s a new manifesto for marriage and an answer to why, even when we suck at it, we stick at it.

Journalist Tim Dowling was born in Connecticut and moved to the UK at the age of 29. He is the author of 4 books (so far) including a novel, ‘The Giles Wareing Haters' Club’. For the last five and a half years his popular weekly Guardian column has charted the ups and downs of family life, and his largely unsuccessful attempts to be recognised as a competent father and husband, combining self-deprecating humour with a perverse optimism.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.4.2015
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 220 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Comic / Humor / Manga
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Familie / Erziehung
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie Partnerschaft / Sexualität
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Familienrecht
ISBN-10 0-00-752768-3 / 0007527683
ISBN-13 978-0-00-752768-7 / 9780007527687
Zustand Neuware
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