The Commitment : Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
The true story of a marriage (not really), a lovable and relentless mother, a six-year old who says his parents cannot get married (but wants to go to the reception), a partner who doesn't want to act like a straight person, and the author, who has written a hilarious and poignant memoir about...
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The true story of a marriage (not really), a lovable and relentless mother, a six-year old who says his parents cannot get married (but wants to go to the reception), a partner who doesn't want to act like a straight person, and the author, who has written a hilarious and poignant memoir about making "The Commitment."There is no hotter issue than gay marriage in the culture-war debate, and Dan Savage, one of America's most outspoken and beloved columnists, takes it on and makes it personal in this rollicking memoir of coming to terms with the very public act of marriage. What he discovers will make readers--gay or straight, right or left, single or married--howl with laughter as well as rethink their notions of marriage and all that it entails.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780525949077 (0525949070)
Publish date: September 22nd 2005
Publisher: Dutton
Pages no: 291
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Biography Memoir,
Sexuality,
Glbt,
Queer,
Gay,
Marriage
I can't remember why Dan Savage's works were under discussion the other day, but when I saw this listed as available on my library audio download shelf, I reflexively added it.I'm glad I did- it was fun to revisit from a slightly less repressive political climate. The narration was nicely done. The ...
Dan Savage takes on the topic of gay marriage as he explores his own relationship and his family's reaction to the possibility of getting married.
I am getting married in a little over a month. I am fortunately able to do this, because I am a heterosexual. If I was not, my attempt to enter into a legally-binding, stable relationship with my significant other would apparently rock the very foundations of the institution, and possibly turn a bu...
I enjoy Savage's writing. I was predisposed to like this book. Unsurprisingly, I did.Savage has a gimlet eye which somehow manages to also be warm and sweet. His struggles with the nature of marriage and his own personal relationship to it are seasoned with family vignettes and hilarious walk-ons by...
I'm not actually a huge fan of Dan Savage's "Savage Love" column, but I really enjoyed this book. In it, Savage gives a heartfelt, funny account of the move toward marrying his boyfriend and how that affects him, his friends, and most of all, his family. His mom is really the hero of this book. A st...