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First Comes Love

By Marion Winik

By Marion Winik

By Marion Winik

By Marion Winik

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May 27, 1997 | ISBN 9780679765554

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Sep 16, 2009 | ISBN 9780307556141

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    About First Comes Love

      A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

       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. 
       In a memoir heartbreaking and hilarious by turns, Marion Winik tells a story that is all more powerful for the way in which it defies easy judgments.  As it charts the trajectory of a marriage so impossible that it became inevitable, First Comes Love reminds us—poignantly indelibly—that every story is a special case.

    About First Comes Love

      A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

       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. 
       In a memoir heartbreaking and hilarious by turns, Marion Winik tells a story that is all more powerful for the way in which it defies easy judgments.  As it charts the trajectory of a marriage so impossible that it became inevitable, First Comes Love reminds us—poignantly indelibly—that every story is a special case.

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    About Marion Winik

    Marion Winik lives in Austin, Texas.

    About Marion Winik

    Marion Winik lives in Austin, Texas.

    Product Details

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $17.95
    Published by Vintage
    May 27, 1997 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679765554

    Category: Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $7.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 16, 2009 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780307556141

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    Praise

    “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

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