How to Be a Husband. Tim Dowling
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Название: How to Be a Husband

Автор: Tim Dowling

Издательство: HarperCollins

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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

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Introduction

       1. The Beginning

       2. Are You Compatible?

       3. Getting Married: Why Would You?

       4. How To Be Wrong

       5. Am I Relevant?

       6. DIY: Man’s Estate, Even Now

       7. Extended Family

       8. The Forty Precepts of Gross Marital Happiness

       9. Bringing Home the Bacon

       10. A Very Short Chapter About Sex

       11. The Pros and Cons of Procreation

       12. Alpha Male, Omega Man

       13. Coming To Grief

       14. Staying Together – For Better and Worse

       15. Do I Need a Hobby?

       16. Fatherhood for Morons

       17. Keeping the Magic Alive

       18. Head of Security

       19. Misandry – There’s Such a Word, But Is There Such a Thing?

       20. Subject To Change

       Conclusion

       Acknowledgements

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       About the Publisher

      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