New Memoir Provides Insight Into Problems in Relationships and Why Relationships Fail
"So, Why Have You Never Been Married?: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Lunacy," the new memoir by Alan Stransman provides unique insight into the problems in relationships and the reasons why relationships fail. A poignant and often hilarious chronicle of one man's romantic history.
Toronto, Canada, April 01, 2011 --(PR.com)-- “So, Why Have You Never Been Married?: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Lunacy” is the new memoir by Alan Stransman, author of “Don’t Let Your Dream Business Turn Into a Nightmare: A Cautionary Tale For Would-Be Entrepreneurs.” As he did in his first book, Stransman has woven his real-life experiences into a poignant and often hilarious narrative. This time out, Stransman has chronicled a lifetime of experiences in the world of dating and relationships.
“You have to be a bit crazy to write a memoir which exposes the intimate details of your romantic history,” admits the author, “but I am a literary guy and my literary heroes are people like Philip Roth, D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller, all of whom wrote about sex and sexuality from a male perspective with courage, honesty, and, in the case of Roth and Miller, great humor. This book is my homage to some of the writers who shaped my sensibility and my attitudes towards love, romance and relationships. My goal was to write an honest account of one man’s romantic history. I’m delighted to say that those who have read my book have found it both very funny and very moving.”
Stransman first began writing the book in 1992, at the age of 42, and continued to work on it intermittently until 2008, when, subsequent to the positive response to his business memoir "Don't Let Your Dream Business Turn Into a Nightmare," he set out to complete it, which he did in late 2010.
"Just about everyone has experienced the good, the bad and the ugly in dating and relationships," says Stransman, "and for most people, their inner life or emotional life represents a more authentic form of biography than the external details that we always read about, namely career achievements. And yet, to explore and expose your emotional history in a work of literary non-fiction, which this book is, is an unusual thing to do. People have asked me why I wrote the book, and my response has been that writing about the women I have loved and the person I was when I was in love with them is far more relevant way of sharing what I have experienced and learned than a thinly-veiled work of fiction would be. Recalling and expressing the events of your past with clarity and precision is a different process than that of writing fiction, but one which is, in my view, no less demanding."
"So, Why Have You Never Been Married?: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Lunacy" is available at http://www.sowhyhaveyouneverbeenmarried.com and at http://www.amazon.com and http://www.amazon.ca.
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“You have to be a bit crazy to write a memoir which exposes the intimate details of your romantic history,” admits the author, “but I am a literary guy and my literary heroes are people like Philip Roth, D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller, all of whom wrote about sex and sexuality from a male perspective with courage, honesty, and, in the case of Roth and Miller, great humor. This book is my homage to some of the writers who shaped my sensibility and my attitudes towards love, romance and relationships. My goal was to write an honest account of one man’s romantic history. I’m delighted to say that those who have read my book have found it both very funny and very moving.”
Stransman first began writing the book in 1992, at the age of 42, and continued to work on it intermittently until 2008, when, subsequent to the positive response to his business memoir "Don't Let Your Dream Business Turn Into a Nightmare," he set out to complete it, which he did in late 2010.
"Just about everyone has experienced the good, the bad and the ugly in dating and relationships," says Stransman, "and for most people, their inner life or emotional life represents a more authentic form of biography than the external details that we always read about, namely career achievements. And yet, to explore and expose your emotional history in a work of literary non-fiction, which this book is, is an unusual thing to do. People have asked me why I wrote the book, and my response has been that writing about the women I have loved and the person I was when I was in love with them is far more relevant way of sharing what I have experienced and learned than a thinly-veiled work of fiction would be. Recalling and expressing the events of your past with clarity and precision is a different process than that of writing fiction, but one which is, in my view, no less demanding."
"So, Why Have You Never Been Married?: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Lunacy" is available at http://www.sowhyhaveyouneverbeenmarried.com and at http://www.amazon.com and http://www.amazon.ca.
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