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What We Do for Love Hardback - 1997

by Ilene Beckerman

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From swooning over Frank Sinatra songs and daydreaming about Burt Lancaster to blind dates and marriage, Beckman tells a story any woman who's ever looked for love will recognize: the fist love, the letters, the phone call that doesn't come, makeovers, breakups, and the exchange of marriage vows. Illustrations throughout.

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Looking for love isn't easy, and it's never what you expect. WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE is a reminder of how true that is. Unlucky in love herself, "Gingy" Beckerman shows us there is always reason to keep trying. "Recaptures in words and line drawings young love in all its glorious agony and possibility."--Glamour; "Charmingly written and illustrated . . . this savory little truffle turns out to be surprisingly poignant, laced with the bitter, the rueful, and the sweet." --Good Housekeeping; "This book would make a perfect gift from a woman to her best woman friend."--Chattanooga Free Press. A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB selection.

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In What We Do for Love, Ilene ("Gingy") Beckerman tells her funny, sometimes heartbreaking story, a story that every woman who's ever searched for love will recognize: The first crush. The phone call that doesn't come. The makeovers after the breakups. And the exchange of marriage vows. With poignant prose and drawings, Beckerman looks back on a lifetime of trying to find true love. She remembers sneaking out of the house to neck with her high school boyfriend, dancing cheek-to-cheek with her first husband, and settling down with her second husband - but even he is not the man of her dreams. Through it all, Gingy Beckerman holds on to the possibility that there might he someone out there who's just right for her. And, as it turns out, there is - "I never would have expected when I was a senior in high school that I wouldn't find love until I was practically a senior citizen".

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  • Title What We Do for Love
  • Author Ilene Beckerman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Publication date 1997-01
  • ISBN 9781565121805 / 1565121805
  • Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.3 x 5.67 x 0.57 in (18.54 x 14.40 x 1.45 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Love / Sex / Marriage
  • Library of Congress subjects Man-woman relationships - United States, Women - United States - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97016640
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.7

About the author

Ilene Beckerman was nearly sixty when she began her writing career. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Ladies' Home Journal. She has judged People's "Best and Worst Dressed" issue and has traveled the country, speaking to women's groups. "Sometimes," she says, "i feel like Grandma Moses--she didn't start until later in life either--but i try not to look like her."
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