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How the World Makes Love: And What It Taught a Jilted Groom

by Franz Wisner

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

The bestselling author of Honeymoon with My Brother hits the road again to learn about love and finally finds it closer to home  When you've been jilted at the altar and forced to take your pre-paid honeymoon with your brother, its fair to say you could learn a thing or two about love. And that's what Franz Wisner sets out to do traveling the globe with a mission: to discover the planets most important love lessons and see if they can rescue him from the ruins of his own love life. Even after months on the road, he's still not sure he's found the secret. But a disastrous date with a Los Angeles actress and single mom keeps popping into Franz's head. While researching ideal love, could he have missed a bigger truth: that something unplanned and implausible could actually make him happy?

Uproarious, tender, and studded with eye-opening insights on love, How the World Makes Love is the story of one average mans search for happinessa search that turns into an improbable love story in the authors own backyard.

Review:

"Wisner's earlier book, Honeymoon with My Brother, was based on the two years he spent visiting 53 countries with his brother after being jilted by his fiance. This sequel follows the Wisner brothers on a quixotic search for 'how people in different countries meet, fall in love, have sex.' Chapters on visits to seven countries, including Egypt, Brazil and New Zealand, alternate with descriptions of Wisner's own on-again-off-again love lives back in Los Angeles. In the style of Dave Barry, the author relates his experiences with self-deprecating humor: 'Only in America can a person get dumped at the altar and turn it into a career.' The peripatetic siblings look for the meaning of love in such places as a market in Nicaragua and a nightclub in Prague, turning up such stereotypes as people in India favor arranged marriages. The earlier book is being made into a movie, and the sequel has cinematic potential as well. Both would be of interest to readers searching for love without commitment and a relationship without obligations. Like a television sitcom, this book provides more laughs than wisdom. (Mar.) " Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

About the Author

FRANZ WISNER got dumped at the altar and turned the experience into a career. Wisner has written for a variety of publications, including The Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives in Connecticut.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780312340834
Subtitle:
...and What It Taught a Jilted Groom
Author:
Wisner, Franz
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Travel
Subject:
Man-woman relationships
Subject:
Dating (social customs)
Subject:
Essays & Travelogues
Subject:
Human Sexuality
Subject:
Travelers
Edition Description:
Trade Cloth
Publication Date:
March 2009
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
308
Dimensions:
9.42x6.48x1.09 in. 1.16 lbs.

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