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Peter Bauman, a forty-five-year-old divorced gay painter, plunges into the personal ads just prior to the Internet in his quest for the perfect partner. He dates a colorful cast of characters from a Connecticut physician, a rabid Republican, to a Texas-two-stepping, tattooed punk. Next there's the heavier-than-advertised geek who arrives with a bag of sex toys, but Peter is more serious with a handsome, stern Maine woodsman, followed by a British aristocrat patron who declines further intimacy because of his AIDS. As Peter negotiates his new gay identity, his best friend, Barry, counsels and supports him at every step, especially as Peter deals with a health crisis. During a decade of sex and shenanigans, Peter, encouraged by his ex-wife, daughter, and son, examines his life and, at last, discovers his soul mate. Acclaim for "The Decade of Blind Dates" "SPECTACULARLY WITTY...The Decade of Blind Dates is a brave novel, a remarkable work of social and personal history. It is gay life as so many Americans lived it in the last decades of the last century, an alternately glorious and confounding picaresque of the mind and heart. It is also spectacularly witty-I started writing down lines that made me laugh out loud and soon ran out of paper." "--Richard Stevenson, author of the Donald Strachey series" "HILARIOUS...Pre-Internet personals, perseverance, and a strong swimmer's sturdy build all pay off for the narrator of this engaging episodic novel about a rural gay artist's decade-long-search, after coming out at midlife, for heart-connecting love-not just sweaty sex. Alther's word portraits of men met along the way-among them a Nordic-god New Age bodybuilder with a dullblack toupee, a burly Bear with a bagful of erotic toys and a miniscule member, and a reclusive basket-weaver with magisterial forearms-are as humane as they are hilarious in a warm-hearted story." "--Richard Labonte, Books To Watch Out For" "The Decade of Blind Dates is refreshing in its realism about what gay men experience-friends who die of AIDS, gay men who marry in an attempt to convince themselves they are straight, only to end up divorced. It's not just about hot sex but rather a very serious novel about dating. Anyone who has suffered through years of dating to find a soul mate will feel empathy and humor over Peter's situation." "--Reader Views" "Whether you are gay or straight, Richard Alther exposes the hilarity and challenge of starting over romantically in midlife." "--The Bottom Line, Palm Springs"
Sophie wants one thing for Christmas—a little freedom from her overprotective parents. So when they decide to spend Christmas in South Louisiana with her very pregnant older sister, Sophie is looking forward to some much needed private (read: make-out) time with her long-term boyfriend, Griffin. Except it turns out that Griffin wants a little freedom from their relationship. Cue devastation. Heartbroken, Sophie flees to her grandparents' house, where the rest of her boisterous extended family is gathered for the holiday. That's when her nonna devises a (not so) brilliant plan: Over the next ten days, Sophie will be set up on ten different blind dates by different family members. Like her sweet cousin Sara, who sets her up with a hot guy at an exclusive underground party. Or her crazy aunt Patrice, who signs Sophie up for a lead role in a living nativity. With a boy who barely reaches her shoulder. And a screaming baby. When Griffin turns up unexpectedly and begs for a second chance, Sophie feels more confused than ever. Because maybe, just maybe, she's started to have feelings for someone else . . . Someone who is definitely not available. This is going to be the worst Christmas break ever . . . or is it?
Renee is back, yearning for more. Determined to be the best wife she can for Keith, she pursues his fantasy on her own – without his approval. Becoming addicted wasn't something she foresaw. Going from plain to exciting, she embraces her husband's fantasy and finally agrees that maybe the other man should be a stranger. The explosive revelation in the end will change Renee in drastic ways. 110 Standard Paperback pages. This is part 2 of a 3-part series.
A wonderful reader for anyone who loves the great programs of old-time radio, this definitive encyclopedia covers American radio shows from their beginnings in the 1920s to the early 1960s.
A persons college years often lay the foundation for the rest of their lives. In Lessons of the Freshman Year, Ken Baxter tells the story of a young man from rural Arkansas who begins college with few life experiences and a limited perspective. Through a variety of interactions, pranks and adventures, this young man enjoys life to its fullest and gains some wisdom along the way. Lessons of the Freshman Year is ripe with the music, style, and major events of 1979. It blends laughter with the stress of the unknown while demonstrating the role our past plays in determining the people we become.
The book focuses on the way various film icons engaged in and defined some major issues of cultural and social concern to America during the 1980s.
Recounts a travel writer's journey to eighteen countries for dates with eighty men in search of romance and the ideal relationship, documenting the best and the worse of her experiences.
Are you tired of relationships and dating? Are you investing too much time looking for your soul mate? Is there really someone out there for you? If so, where? FAST FOOD DATING...YOUR 2 CENTS is an interactive book created on the insights of daters like yourself who are looking for love in all the right and wrong places. Respondents share what works, where to look and what to try. Since food and sex are often used in the same breath, why not use dating and food in the same context? Busy schedules mean little time for eating. Right? People need fast food. They need instant carbs! The same values apply to dating, "I want who I want, when I want, how I want...Preferably low fat and to heck with the carbs!" Fast Food Dating will provide you insight into: - Internet Dating - Telephone Chat lines - High-Speed Dating - Classified Ads - Blind Dating - Arranged Marriages - Dating Services/Singles Clubs - Naughty Dating Services Fast Food Dating also features high-profile dating services like Speed Dating, Ashley Madison and many more! "Fast Food Dating is informative, enlightening and entertaining as heck! Kudos to the authors! I laughed my butt off! If you haven't read this book, go for it! It is very witty, sarcastic and gut-busting!" ~ Robert Sproat, Homerun Productions