First Comes Love

A Memoir

Marion Winik

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Vintage Books
27 May 1997

Biography: general; Dating, relationships, living together & marriage

"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by longtime All Things Considered commentator and author of The Glen Rock Book of the Dead charts thetrajectory of a marriage so impossible that it became inevitable.

""Gritty, funny, moving, horrific, outrageous-and, above all, fearlessly honest.... ultimately a joyous story."" -Newsday

When Marion Winik fell in love with Tony Heubach during a wild Mardi Gras in New Orleans, her friends shook their heads. For starters, she was straight and he was gay. But Marion and Tony's impossible love turned out to be true enough to produce a marriage and two beautiful sons, true enough to weather drug addiction, sexual betrayal, and the AIDS that would kill Tony at the age of thirty-seven, twelve years after they met."

By: Marion Winik
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Reprinted edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 232g
ISBN: 9780679765554
ISBN 10: 0679765557
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 27 May 1997
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"MARION WINIK is heard regularly on National Public Radio's ""All Things Considered."" She was the recipient of a 1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction and has been voted Favorite Local Writer by the readers of the Austin Chronicle for four consecutive years. First Comes Love won the Violet Crown Award for Best Book by an Austen Writer, 1996, from the Austen Writer's League. The author of Telling, she lives in Austin, Texas, with her two sons."

Reviews for First Comes Love: A Memoir

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Gritty, funny, moving, horrific, outrageous-and, above all, fearlessly honest.... ultimately a joyous story. -Newsday Decidedly unfaint-hearted... Marion Winik is resilient, hardy, unfazable; this self-described suburban wannabe is a frontier woman in disguise. -The New York Times Book Review A true story stripped of fine writing or cheap analysis.... I won't be the only reader who can't put it down. -San Francisco Chronicle Beautiful ... intense and intimate. -Washington Post Book World