First Comes Love
Marion Winik. Vintage Books USA, $19 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-679-76555-4
The NPR commentator's account of her passionate but ultimately tragic marriage to a gay man. (June)
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Reviewed on: 05/26/1997
Genre: Nonfiction
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