Learning To Float - Softcover

Wright, Lili

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553814397 ISBN 13: 9780553814392

Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group), 2003

Synopsis

Feeling single though technically dating two boyfriends, 33-year-old Lili Wright decided to take off by herself, far away from New York and the relationships crowding her life. Troubled by pressure to settle down, she hoped a coastal road trip from Maine to Florida would help answer the question "What is love?" Chaperoned by her ex-boyfriend's dog, Brando, Lili motored down America's East Coast to revisit the sites where she first felt love, Nantucket, where she met Rawl the hippie waiter; Greenwich, where she nearly became a wife; New Jersey, where she went with a contented drifter. Driving along the ocean-side, picking up nuggets of wisdom from the coastal folk, what she really discovered over the next 1500 miles was that the biggest lessons in love are the hardest to find.

About this title

About the Author

Lili Wright spent ten years as a journalist in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Utah and Mexico. Her work has appeared in newspapers across the US, including the New York Times and the Baltimore Sun. A graduate of Columbia University's M.F.A. program, she currently teaches creative writing and journalism at DePauw University and lives in Greencastle, Indiana, with her husband and daughter.

From the Back Cover

Burned out on love, Lili Wright embarks on a soul-searching highway adventure in this gutsy memoir of the heart.

In matters of the heart, thirty-three-year-old Lili Wright is far from where she'd hoped to be. Technically single but also dating two men, she wonders why it's so hard to make a relationship work - and whether either one of her current flames will last a lifetime. Unable to choose between them, Lili opts for another path: the open road. She borrows a dog, jumps in her beaten up old car and heads south in search of old haunts - and lovers - in the hope of finding the answers she's been looking for.

But, as Lili soon realizes, life is never that simple. En route she meets a gaggle of oddball characters - all eager to impart their own weird and wonderful views on life, love and the pursuit of happiness. The question is, where will all this folksy wisdom take Lili? Will she merely sink deeper into the mire of loneliness - or emerge buoyant and floating happily into the future?

Sharp, witty and incisive, Learning to Float captures the anxiety of love for the hitched and unhitched, and it'll keep you laughing - and guessing - to the very end.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553814397
• ISBN 13: 9780553814392
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368