Us: Americans Talk About Love

About this book

US a collection of fascinating love stories from across America as told to the oral historian John Bowe From the wards of New Orleans to the cornfields of Iowa to the slopes of Colorado from the raves of Los Angeles to the hollows of Appalachia and the canyons of Wall Street Americans talk about love. Tortured teenagers free-spirited octogenarians anxious Navy wives blue-blooded bohemians horny-but-chaste pastors and multiply-partnered cosmopolitans tell extraordinary tales of broken hearts; sexual infidelities; improbable reconciliations; hidden forbidden preposterous love; and endurance against all odds. These are Americas real love storieswise and foolish comic and tragic full of surprises and straight from the heart.