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020 $a9781476738994 (hbk.) :$cNT$910
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100 1 $aKreider, Tim.
245 10$aI wrote this book because I love you :$bessays /$cTim Kreider.
250 $a1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c2018.
300 $a[xv], 206 p. ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $aDeath-Defying Acts -- Kind of Love* -- Oof -- Our War on Terror -- The Feast of Pain -- The Dilemma* -- A Man and His Cat -- The Strange Situation -- On Smushing -- Orientation* -- The Uncertainty Principle -- I Never Went to Iceland.
520 $aTim Kreider trains his virtuoso writing and singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women. In his new collection, I Wrote This Book Because I Love You, he focuses his unique perception and wit on his relationships with women -- romantic, platonic, and the murky in-between. He talks about his difficulty finding lasting love, and seeks to understand his commitment issues by tracking down the John Hopkins psychologist who tested him for a groundbreaking study on attachment when he was a toddler. He talks about his valued female friendships, one of which landed him on a circus train bound for Mexico. He talks about his time teaching young women at an upstate New York college, and the profound lessons they wound up teaching him. And in a hugely popular essay that originally appeared in The New York Times, he talks about his nineteen-year-old cat, wondering if it's the most enduring relationship he'll ever have.
650 0$aEssays.
650 0$aMan-woman relationships$vHumor.
650 0$aHuman-animal relationships$xHumor.
650 0$aAmerican wit and humor.