num_pages: 225
description: "While it requires will to make a marriage work, it also requires a horrifying act of will to bring one to an end," observes John Taylor in this beautifully written and emotionally haunting memoir. With searing insight and intensity, Taylor chronicles the demise of his eleven-year marriage?and the journey he made in order to put the failure of "making it work" behind him.In an unflinchingly honest narrative that at last gives voice to a man?s feelings on the pain of divorce, Taylor describes the hopeful beginnings of his marriage and its gradual disintegration. He wrestles with the decision to leave his wife and young daughter, struggles to clarify his responsibilities as a husband and father, and explores the idea of moral self-definition and imperfection while learning that even the most intimate choices have far-reaching consequences.As many readers will discover, it is equally difficult for a man to walk away from a marriage as it is for a woman. For anyone who has ever been touched by divorce, Falling will be a profound and heartwrenching reading experience.
language: English
title: Falling: The Story of One Marriage
titlecomplete: Falling: The Story of One Marriage
genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 37
publisher: Ballantine Books