First Loves

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Multiple award-winning author and intellectual Ted Solotaroff her offers a memoir that, as an anatomy of a marriage for love, is perhaps unique in its unremitting candour and scrupulous willingness not to draw conclusions. Showing how a whole life can derive its melody and meaning from one relationship, First Loves turns back to the earliest pages of his romance with Lynn, exploring the joyous, painful, fragile moments of their life together, as well as the opposition of romantic and intellectual passion.

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"An elegant memoir. For all its pain and sadness [it] is as touching as gratitude and forgiveness, exhilarating as truth." - New York Times Book Review "Presented unflinchingly and with deep feeling." - New Yorker "Deeply felt...eloquent..." - New York Times

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Ted Solotaroff former editor of Commentary and Bookweek, founded the influential literary journal American Review. The first volume of his memoirs, Truth Comes in Blows, won the Martha Albrand Award for 1998 from American PEN, was a New York Times Notable Book and was nominated for the National Jewish Book Award. He is also author of the acclaimed A Few Good Voices in My Head and The Red-Hot Vacuum.