- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: HarperOne (April 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0062514318
- ISBN-13: 978-0062514318
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,326,992 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When a couple comes to therapy for the first time, I check for membership insignia: the leather or tweed, the tattoos or gold earrings, the buzz cut or blond bob that will tell me whether my new clients belong to the butch/femme club or the crone clan, the punk or professional tribe of Lesbian Nation. Read the first page
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When a couple comes to therapy for the first time, I check for membership insignia: the leather or tweed, the tattoos or gold earrings, the buzz cut or blond bob that will tell me whether my new clients belong to the butch/femme club or the crone clan, the punk or professional tribe of Lesbian Nation. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a smart and engrossing guide to the ups and downs of lesbian love. Hall shows us how to survive by refining and retelling the stories of our relationships. Her experience as a couples therapist serves her well. I loved her beautifully crafted prose and clever puns. There is nothing corny or judgmental here. It's just fresh. I really couldn't put it down. A definite all-nighter--you don't have to be a lesbian to enjoy this book!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Completely Misleading, Disappointing, Depressing
8 July 2004
Format:Paperback
I grabbed this book impulsively because it claimed to be a guide to lesbian heartbreaks. I've almost read the entire thing and have not seen much advice on how to deal with or understand the unique nature of lesbian love gone bad.
The other unrelated "advice" seems to address a forty-something, old school dyke perspective. Very out of date! And the pervasive notion that lesbians have to abandon the one person, ongoing relationship ideal (that every heterosexual I know embraces and takes as their birthright) and put up with some odd, one-off compromise, like learning to live with infidelity (!), actually engaging in threesomes as a way to enhance and "keep" a relationship makes me beyond depressed.
I am angry that this so-called expert suggests that we must resign to some other set of circumstances to be happy and "happily ever after" is just a myth. Her ideas are gross. I am substantially worse off for having read this book.
If you want to cheer up after a lesbian break-up, DON'T read this book!
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A hilarious guide to the vagaries of lesbian relationships.
27 Mar 1998
Format:Paperback
This is a smart and engrossing guide to the ups and downs of lesbian love. Hall shows us how to survive by refining and retelling the stories of our relationships. Her experience as a couples therapist serves her well. I loved her beautifully crafted prose and clever puns. There is nothing corny or judgmental here. It's just fresh. I really couldn't put it down. A definite all-nighter--you don't have to be a lesbian to enjoy this book!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
don't waste your time
14 Jan 2002
Format:Paperback
This book was given to me by a friend to read as an example of a good self-help book. It purports to be a guide to "how to survive everything from heartthrob to heartbreak", but I read the whole thing without getting any useful information. I gave this book its one star because of the personal stories, which I found to be relate-able, but there was no real "advice" here, just the author's pet thesis, which I found not only less than helpful, but also relatively patronizing. A much more helpful book (and funnier too) is So You Want to be a Lesbian? by Liz Tracey and Sydney Pokorny. While it was written tongue-in-cheek, it offers 100% more advice on hooking up and surviving a broken heart than Hall's. I am really glad I didn't spend the money on this book.
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