Название: How to Be a Husband
Автор: Tim Dowling
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Юмор: прочее
isbn: 9780007527670
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This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2014
Copyright © Tim Dowling 2014
Tim Dowling asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Seven of the Forty Precepts of Gross Marital Happiness made their first appearance, in slightly different form, in an article in Guardian Weekend magazine from February 2013
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Cover photographs: (man) David Levene/© 2010 Guardian News & Media Ltd; (wallpaper) Hudyma Natallia/Shutterstock
Chapter illustrations © Benoît Jacques 2014
Jacket design by Keenan
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Source ISBN: 9780007527663
Ebook Edition © June 2014 ISBN: 9780007527670
Version: 2017-03-08
To Sophie; who else?
CONTENTS
3. Getting Married: Why Would You?
6. DIY: Man’s Estate, Even Now
8. The Forty Precepts of Gross Marital Happiness
10. A Very Short Chapter About Sex
11. The Pros and Cons of Procreation
14. Staying Together – For Better and Worse
19. Misandry – There’s Such a Word, But Is There Such a Thing?
In the summer of 2007 I was asked out of the blue to take over the page at the front of the Guardian Weekend magazine. I say out of the blue, but I’ll admit it was a possibility I’d considered long before the invitation was extended. I therefore received the news with my usual mixture of gratitude and impatience – shocked, thrilled, immensely flattered, and not before time. There was no question of turning СКАЧАТЬ