Crazy Love - Hardcover

Leslie Morgan Steiner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312377452 ISBN 13: 9780312377458

Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc., 2009

Synopsis

Leslie Morgan Steiner met the love of her life at 22, soon after graduating from Harvard and starting her first job at "Seventeen" magazine in New York. She fell for his self-deprecating wit and street smarts - and especially his unabashed worship of her. They married and spent four years together. At first Leslie felt like the woman of his dreams. Then she discovered her husband had been beaten as a child, taught by his parents that intimacy and rage danced together. He brought violence into their life, pouring coffee grinds over her hair, choking and threatening her with a gun during arguments. Several times, he came close to making good on his threats to kill her. Leslie's mistake is one millions identify with: she fell in love with the wrong man. It took one last terrifying attack to convince her that he would kill her one day if she let him..

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Review:

"In this gripping, compulsively readable story of romantic love and its dreadful underside, Leslie Morgan Steiner has written a classic. What makes love turn to violence? How can a woman know she is at risk? These are some of the questions elegantly addressed in Steiner's important book about how she survived a marriage which almost killed her. Her painful journey from love to fear to sanity is ultimately heartening and serves a profound lesson. This book should be required reading for all women." "--" Susan Cheever

"Crazy Love reminds us that sometimes a marriage can go from being a mere skirmish in the battle of the sexes to becoming a full-on physical war. The book stands as a warning to all women to be vigilant when they pick their spouses, to always have an exit strategy in mind, to know where the money in the marriage is, to pick up as much education as possible - all for the possible day when they may find themselves battered, broke, terrified and alone. It can happen to anyone, and every woman should prepare herself for it." "--" Carolyn See, author of "Making a Literary Life"

"A harrowing cautionary tale that should be read by every woman who thinks romantic love can overcome all. I read this book in one terrifying gulp and plan to have my daughter read it. Every mother should do the same." "--" Elsa Walsh, staff writer for" The New Yorker" and author of" Divided Lives"

"After a few moments of disbelief--how could a nice girl from a nice family marry such a cruel and dangerous man?--I found myself cheering for this woman who gets off the floor--literally--and goes on to save her own life. "Crazy Love" is a deeply affecting account of cruelty and abuse in a marriagedoomed from the start. It is a reminder that while bad behavior can be explained it can never be excused, and that while placing blame is rarely useful, letting go is. Leslie Morgan Steiner's candor is wrenching and ultimately inspiring." "--" Jane Juska, author of" Unaccompanied Women" and "A Round-Heeled Woman"

"Leslie Morgan Steiner has written a memoir that is as seductive as a whirlwind romance. This is a book for every woman -- and man -- who has ever felt, as Steiner writes, that 'leaving was easy. The hard part was figuring out where to go.'" "--" Veronica Chambers, author, "Mama's Girl"

"Bright, beautiful and battered. Leslie Morgan Steiner didn't think of herself as a victim until it was almost too late. Hers is a success story that shows how excruciating a declaration of independence can be and how much happiness can come from it. Read it and cheer." "--" George Lardner, author of "The Stalking of Kristin" and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his" Washington Post" series investigating his daughter's murder by her ex-boyfriend

"Most love is crazy -- at first, it's that can't eat, can't sleep feeling. Then it moves into a comfortable, warm, hopefully, still sexy state. Leslie Morgan Steiner shows us with wrenching clarity when crazy is good and when crazy is something you need to leave. A must read for anyone in a consuming relationship." "--" Iris Krasnow, author of "New York Times" bestseller, . --"Dee Dee Myers, author of "Why Women Should Rule the World"

Book Description:

A disturbing true story of domestic violence and one woman's fight for her life in an abusive marriage.

About this edition

• Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0312377452
• ISBN 13: 9780312377458
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336