What do America 's wives, wives-to-be, and ex-wives want? They want a man who will talk openly to them -- make them laugh, make them cry, tell them the truth, or tell them better lies. And they will find him in Husbandry, a collection of some 30 essays chosen from Stephen Fried's wildly popular column in Ladies' Home Journal. His smart, funny, touching pieces have America's wives talking to each other in a new way -- and talking, in many cases for the first time, to their husbands. Fried's Husbandry essays illuminate the mysterious and often maddening ways of married men, whether in love, in friendship, in the kitchen, the locker room, or the bedroom. Ranging from the sublime to the absolutely ridiculous, these pieces are wise, tender, and often laugh-out-loud funny.

Publication date: September 2007

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