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Scribner, February 2012
Hardcover, 192 pages
ISBN-10: 1439168229
ISBN-13: 9781439168226
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Written with charm and wit, No Cheating, No Dying investigates one of the most universal human institutions--marriage. Elizabeth Weil and her husband Dan have two basic ground rules for their marriage: no cheating, no dying. For ten years it’s worked fine, but Elizabeth started to wonder if it could be better.
Elizabeth Weil believes that you don’t get married in a white dress, in front of all your future in-laws and ex-boyfriends but gradually, over time, through all the road rage incidents and pre-colonoscopy enemas, good and bad dinners, and all the small moments you never expected to happen or much less endure. In this book, Weil examines the major universal marriage issues—sex, money, mental health, in-laws, children—through bravely recounting her own hilarious, messy, and sometimes difficult relationship. She seeks out the advice of financial planners, psychoanalysts, therapists, household management consultants, priests, rabbis, and theUnited States
Elizabeth Weil believes that you don’t get married in a white dress, in front of all your future in-laws and ex-boyfriends but gradually, over time, through all the road rage incidents and pre-colonoscopy enemas, good and bad dinners, and all the small moments you never expected to happen or much less endure. In this book, Weil examines the major universal marriage issues—sex, money, mental health, in-laws, children—through bravely recounting her own hilarious, messy, and sometimes difficult relationship. She seeks out the advice of financial planners, psychoanalysts, therapists, household management consultants, priests, rabbis, and the
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“A whip smart and contagiously humorous attempt to address the eternal conundrum of domestic ennui and its discontents.”
-- Elle
“Witty, honest . . .”
-- People
“Weil has a voice that charms, full of wit, intelligence and compassion.”
-- O, The Oprah Magazine
“The story of their marriage-improvement journey is both hilarious and insightful.”
-- The New York Times Book Review
“Quite wonderful . . . an astonishingly intimate, hilariously self-deprecating, vibrant and thoroughly modern memoir.”
-- San Francisco Chronicle
“An engaging, often funny and heartfelt memoir about the not-so-romantic realities that can follow 'I do.'"
-- Tampa Bay Times
"What ultimately makes No Cheating, No Dying such a thrilling read is the way Weil fiercely includes the reader in the secret life of her marriage."
-- Knoxville MetroPulse
“Weil approaches this creative act with unfaltering self awareness, and this is what makes her pursuit so successful and readable. Indeed, the author’s own surprise at what she finds when rooting around the depths of her union translates to moments of unanticipated beauty on the printed page.” -Booklist
"This is such a smart and rich and insightful book (sometimes painfully funny, other times funnily painful) about what it really takes to keep the turbines of modern marriage going. Reading this memoir, I found myself rooting not only for Liz and Dan, but for all of us -- all married couples who've been humbled by life and stress, but who keep struggling and striving, year after year, to somehow keep it together."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
"Part experiment, part memoir -- told with candor and grace. . . . "
-- New Jersey Star Ledger
“Ever wish you had a really articulate, thoughtful friend who had the guts to tell you every important and ridiculous thing about her marriage? Allow me to introduce you to the wise and generous Elizabeth Weil. You'll love her.”
-- Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author of The Middle Place and Lift
"Marriage is a legal bond, a love affair, a trap, a safety net, a financial partnership. In her wise, charming, and dizzyingly forthright new book, Elizabeth Weil examines this mercurial institution. And she does it the hard way--by taking a long look at her own marriage. Her courage is our boon: No Cheating, No Dying is an utterly necessary, compulsively readable depiction of the way married people live now."
-- Claire Dederer, author of Poser
“Marriage is complicated and Elizabeth Weil's is no exception: Loving, overall happy, but complicated. But her openness about this and pledge to improve the relationship makes for a wonderfully compelling and inspiring memoir. The book will provide many insights to anyone who is married, considering marriage -- or hellbent on avoiding it."
-- A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically and Drop Dead Healthy
Star Ledger, February 12, 2012
...workaholics.) It’s surprising and impressive how well the authors’ literary survey adapts to smart, accessible dating advice. No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage, Then I Tried to Make It Better Elizabeth Weil Scribner, 192 pp., ...
New York Times, February 10, 2012
...is almost 50 percent. One in seven adults lives alone. Half of all Manhattan residences are one-person dwellings. Elizabeth Weil, the author of a new book on marriage, "No Cheating, No Dying, asked the professor to help decode the singles ...
Metro Pulse, February 8, 2012
...that one can improve at personal relationships as if they were fly-fishing, or baking a layer cake, drives Elizabeth Weil’s memoir No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried to Make It Better (Scribner) and Jane ...
Huffington Post, February 7, 2012
...By Jessica Grose ( Click here for original article ) In 2009, Elizabeth Weil published a long piece in the New York Times Magazine called " Married (Happily) With Issues ." It was about the marriage improvement project that she and her ...
Huffington Post, February 7, 2012
...By Jessica Grose (Click here for original article) In 2009, Elizabeth Weil published a long piece in the New York Times Magazine called "Married (Happily) With Issues." It was about the marriage improvement project that she and her husband, ...
Slate Magazine, February 6, 2012
...An interview with Elizabeth Weil, the author of the marriage improvement memoir No Cheating, No Dying. Elizabeth Weil. Stephanie Pool Photography. In 2009, Elizabeth Weil published a long piece in the New York Times ...
Tempo, January 30, 2012
...s story had it exactly backward. Marriage, generally, is truly ridiculous, but I love Dan very, very specifically. (Elizabeth Weil is the author of the new book “No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried to Make It ...
New York Times, January 26, 2012
...my handsome and sunburned husband because it meant the world to him. That was it. That was enough. Elizabeth Weil is the author of the new book “No Cheating, No Dying: I Had a Good Marriage. Then I Tried to Make It Better” (Scribner). ...
Piedmont Patch, January 9, 2012
...pm "On Modern Marriage" Liz Weil In Conversation with Kelly Corrigan Talking about Liz's new book -- No Cheating, No Dying: I Had A Good Marriage, Then I Tried To Make It Better Tickets are $25 for singles, $35 for a couple, and include ...
