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Starting Over Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1974

by Dan Wakefield (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars (31)
The comic national bestseller of love and loss set amid the sexual revolution of the 1970sWhen Phil Potter decides to divorce his wife, Jessica, after a few difficult years, he imagines he's in for a wild jaunt through the sexually liberated 1970s. But his new start--Phil has also left behind his job in PR for a teaching gig at a junior college--is more solitary drinking and TV dinners than raucous orgies. Even the women he does manage to connect with are equally disaffected with their own divorces or failing marriages, and Phil begins to understand the harsh, though often darkly funny, realities of starting over and searching for love the second time around.Capturing both the excitement and struggles of feminism and the sexual revolution, Starting Over depicts the pleasures and pitfalls of dating in the seventies with humor and a deep understanding of how relationships work--or, more commonly, don't work. Replete with spot-on cultural references and rendered under Wakefield's careful journalistic eye, Starting Over is a stunning reminder of the hardships of love in the modern age.
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    English
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  3. Publication date
    January 1, 1974
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000CSYV46
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dell
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 1, 1974
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ First Dell Printing
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.4 ounces
  • Best Sellers Rank: #5,397,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.7 out of 5 stars (31)

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3.7 out of 5 stars
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  • M. T. D.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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    One of Dan Wakefield's great novels - extremely funny, and a bit dark.
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  • Barack Obeagle
    5.0 out of 5 stars A lost gem that is still relevant today
    Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2005
    Format: Hardcover
    I picked up a copy of this book while browsing at a discount bookstore in 2002 because I was a fan of the movie with Burt Reynolds.(I saw it on HBO as a kid). This book turned out to be nothing like the movie, as it was much better.

    Whereas the movie was a standard romantic comedy, this was a hysterical chronicle of single life in your 30's for both the divorced and the never married. I laughed out loud several times.

    The setting was the early 1970's , but the mindsets, trials, and tribulations of dating in your 30's portrayed in this novel were universal- and surprisingly relevant to my life and the lives of other singles I know today.

    I have read it three times since I bought it three years ago, and it gets more relatable each time- probably because I'm the exact same age now as the main character, Phil Potter.

    I highly recommend it for 30-something singles- if you can find a copy.....
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