From : The New York Revieuw of Books
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Marriage and Other Acts of Charityby Kate BraestrupLittle, Brown, 217 pp., $24.99
The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Todayby Andrew J. CherlinVintage, 288 pp., $16.00
Why Him? Why Her? How to Find and Keep Lasting Loveby Helen FisherHolt, 305 pp., $15.00
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriageby Elizabeth GilbertViking, 285 pp., $26.95
Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enoughby Lori GottliebDutton, 322 pp., $25.95
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Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross, and Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967)
Reading the first three of these books about marriage, you might be tempted to reflect that there’s nothing new under the sun. Books of advice about finding love and keeping it have been around, offering formulas and nostrums to readers and believers, since the beginning of print, and so have statistics about the demise of marriage. But Committed and Marry Him, the two books by Elizabeth Gilbert and Lori Gottlieb, suggest that what is new is the mindset of the intended readers. What do we take from the new sensibilities of today’s authors and readers, the thirty-somethings weighing these age-old issues? Has anything really changed?
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