- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Delacorte Press; First Printing edition (Jan 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 038533723X
- ISBN-13: 978-0385337236
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14.6 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,339,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On sale 1/20/04! In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapiro dares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who'd broken her heart and find out what really went wrong. Between the ages of thirteen and thirty-five, Susan had plunged into love, heart-first, five times. One bad breakup was more hurtful and humiliating than the next.
With insight and daring, Susan chronicles her six-month-long journey back down a road strewn with romantic regret. Although for years she'd blamed her boyfriends for their flagrant infidelity, ludicrous faults, and immature foibles, to her shock she can now suddenly pinpoint the exact moment where she herself screwed up each relationship.
A successful freelance writer living in Manhattan, Susan Shapiro was in the midst of a midlife crisis she called her “no-book-no-baby summer.” Married for five years to Aaron, a workaholic TV comedy writer always on the road, she was beginning to wonder if she'd remain book- and babyless forever. Then the phone rang, and it was Brad, a college flame who'd become a Harvard scientist with a book coming out. Susan offers to interview him, and she winds up launching into all the intense, invasive questions she'd always wanted to ask him. To her surprise, he answers them! This ignites a spark that sends her on a cross-country jaunt back through her lust-littered past.
While Brad is still single, she finds that Heartbreaks Number Two, Three, and Four are not. George, a theater professor, and Richard, a music biographer, are happily married with children. Tom, a handsome blond lawyer in L.A., is getting divorced. Just as it's becoming easy to worm her way back into her exes' good graces, she crashes head-on with David, a wry Canadian root canal specialist. ("It’s the equivalent of what you did to me emotionally," she tells him.) She then gut-wrenchingly relives the agony of splitting up with her first love all over again. Yet somewhere between the tantalizing what-ifs and bittersweet might-have-beens, she finds what she's been searching for all along.
Part relationship manifesto, part confessional, and part valentine to the males in her life she adores, Five Men Who Broke My Heart is for anyone who has ever wondered what became of their first love. Or second, third, fourth, or fifth…
With insight and daring, Susan chronicles her six-month-long journey back down a road strewn with romantic regret. Although for years she'd blamed her boyfriends for their flagrant infidelity, ludicrous faults, and immature foibles, to her shock she can now suddenly pinpoint the exact moment where she herself screwed up each relationship.
A successful freelance writer living in Manhattan, Susan Shapiro was in the midst of a midlife crisis she called her “no-book-no-baby summer.” Married for five years to Aaron, a workaholic TV comedy writer always on the road, she was beginning to wonder if she'd remain book- and babyless forever. Then the phone rang, and it was Brad, a college flame who'd become a Harvard scientist with a book coming out. Susan offers to interview him, and she winds up launching into all the intense, invasive questions she'd always wanted to ask him. To her surprise, he answers them! This ignites a spark that sends her on a cross-country jaunt back through her lust-littered past.
While Brad is still single, she finds that Heartbreaks Number Two, Three, and Four are not. George, a theater professor, and Richard, a music biographer, are happily married with children. Tom, a handsome blond lawyer in L.A., is getting divorced. Just as it's becoming easy to worm her way back into her exes' good graces, she crashes head-on with David, a wry Canadian root canal specialist. ("It’s the equivalent of what you did to me emotionally," she tells him.) She then gut-wrenchingly relives the agony of splitting up with her first love all over again. Yet somewhere between the tantalizing what-ifs and bittersweet might-have-beens, she finds what she's been searching for all along.
Part relationship manifesto, part confessional, and part valentine to the males in her life she adores, Five Men Who Broke My Heart is for anyone who has ever wondered what became of their first love. Or second, third, fourth, or fifth…
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Hilarious Journey To Self-Discovery
8 Mar 2004
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Have you ever wanted to look up an old love and find out exactly what went wrong? Well, free-lance writer Susan Shapiro did it....five times! Now happily married, but facing a no-book, no-baby summer and turning 40 to boot has made her take a hard look at her life and what went wrong. Her brutal honesty, self-deprecation, and poignant memories will leave you laughing and crying.
Why is it we have this need to rediscover lost love? Is it to make us feel younger, as she so wisely muses. Is it to reaffirm we married the right guy, after all? Or is it just to make sure all those heartbreakers from the past are now fat, bald, and miserable? No matter the reason, you'll enjoy Susan's trip down memory lane and the feeling of nostalgia that engulfs her before she finally comes to terms with the one man who influenced her entire life.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Cheap therapy
20 Jan 2004
Format:Hardcover
In this memoir, Susan Shapiro says that she has spent thousands upon thousands of dollars on therapy. As a lucky reader, I was able to mooch off of all of her sessions! Shapiro has had more problems with men than J. Lo, but unlike Ms. Lopez, she's not all uptight about talking to the media about it. That's probably because Shapiro IS the media--a freelance writer, to be precise--and her book reads like one of those great, chatty columns in the back of Sunday magazines that always ends too quickly, forcing you to flip back to the cover story on Donald Rumsfeld. Luckily, "Five Men" is a whole lotta pages, and how quickly they flew by for me! All of the "official" reviews provide great summaries, so I won't go there. I will say, however, that this is such a fun, honest, and well-written book. Seriously. I'm really not that enthusiastic a person, I just really liked it.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Heart Breaking, Laugh-Inducing Work of Staggering Genius
20 Jan 2004
Format:Hardcover
Susan Shapiro has the voice of a contemporary female Woody Allen -- she's written the long-overdue "High Fidelity" for women, fearlessly and hilariously accounting the true story of the relationships she's had with most important men in her life, from boyfriends to father to brothers to husband. She's tough on the men, but most critical of herself. Most of all, she proves to all women that the right relationship is worth working for and waiting for. Can't wait to see the movie!
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