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- Literary Movement
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- ISBN
- 9781594206276
- Book Title
- Modern Romance
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Computers, Humor
- Topic
- Love & Romance, Topic / Men, Women & Relationships, Web / Social Media, General, Topic / Marriage & Family, Dating
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 21.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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The #1 New York Times Bestseller "An engaging look at the often head-scratching, frequently infuriating mating behaviors that shape our love lives." -- Refinery 29 A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation's sharpest comedic voices At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it's wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. With technology, our abilities to connect with and sort through these options are staggering. So why are so many people frustrated? Some of our problems are unique to our time. "Why did this guy just text me an emoji of a pizza?" "Should I go out with this girl even though she listed Combos as one of her favorite snack foods? Combos?!" "My girlfriend just got a message from some dude named Nathan. Who's Nathan? Did he just send her a photo of his penis? Should I check just to be sure?" But the transformation of our romantic lives can't be explained by technology alone. In a short period of time, the whole culture of finding love has changed dramatically. A few decades ago, people would find a decent person who lived in their neighborhood. Their families would meet and, after deciding neither party seemed like a murderer, they would get married and soon have a kid, all by the time they were twenty-four. Today, people marry later than ever and spend years of their lives on a quest to find the perfect person, a soul mate. For years, Aziz Ansari has been aiming his comic insight at modern romance, but for Modern Romance , the book, he decided he needed to take things to another level. He teamed up with NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg and designed a massive research project, including hundreds of interviews and focus groups conducted everywhere from Tokyo to Buenos Aires to Wichita. They analyzed behavioral data and surveys and created their own online research forum on Reddit, which drew thousands of messages. They enlisted the world's leading social scientists, including Andrew Cherlin, Eli Finkel, Helen Fisher, Sheena Iyengar, Barry Schwartz, Sherry Turkle, and Robb Willer. The result is unlike any social science or humor book we've seen before. In Modern Romance , Ansari combines his irreverent humor with cutting-edge social science to give us an unforgettable tour of our new romantic world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594206279
ISBN-13
9781594206276
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208664484
Product Key Features
Book Title
Modern Romance
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Love & Romance, Topic / Men, Women & Relationships, Web / Social Media, General, Topic / Marriage & Family, Dating
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Computers, Humor
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hq801.A525 2015
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Reviews
Steve Levitt, co-author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Freakonomics : "Always-hilarious Aziz Ansari proves you can be smart and funny at the same time. Not only did I laugh my ass off, I really learned stuff. Where was this book when I was 22 years old? " Dave Eggers, author of Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?: " Modern Romance is just like Aziz Ansari himself--charming, thoughtful, reasonable, and able to distill the madness of the world into something both sane and wildly funny." Sherry Turkle, author of Reclaiming Conversation: "It's the voices that will have you reading this remarkable book in one sitting! The voices of old people who married someone who lived in their apartment building or the building next door and the voices of the young people who check out hundreds of romantic possibilities a night, with so much choice that choice becomes impossible. And then there is the voice of Ansari himself, funny, of course, but also deeply compassionate. For after a year of surveying romance across the planet, he finds that all the apps in the world leave us with this human truth: you have to spend time with a person to figure out, face-to-face, if they're the one. And perhaps, just perhaps, it's the fact of spending time that makes them the one. We nurture what we love and we love what we nurture! This book defines serious fun." Helen Fisher, author of Why Him? Why Her?: How to Find and Keep Lasting Love: "Ansari and Klinenberg elegantly capture the entirely new ways that singles communicate, court, and find love today. Modern Romance is a captivating read, with deep insight into history, science, and culture, and loads of wit and charm. Along the way, you may even collect some valuable tips for finding a soul mate.", Kirkus Reviews : "The ever hip and funny comedian and Parks and Recreation star embarks on a surprisingly insightful exploration of the complex realities of dating today.... Ansari's eminently readable book is successful, in part, because it not only lays out the history, evolution, and pitfalls of dating, it also offers sound advice on how to actually win today's constantly shifting game of love. Often hilarious, consistently informative, and unusually helpful." Natasha Gilmore, Publishers Weekly: "Ansari, a comedian and TV actor, has co-written a book with a legitimate sociologist about what it means to date in the modern era. When technology and instant gratification are changing the landscape of human interactions, dating is weirder than ever, and I'm looking forward to Ansari's sense of humor and cultural criticism on the topic, which he's started to address in his stand-up." Steven Levitt, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling Freakonomics : "Always-hilarious Aziz Ansari proves you can be smart and funny at the same time. Not only did I laugh my ass off, I really learned stuff. Where was this book when I was 22 years old? " Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Eating Animals : "Laughing is my second least-favorite thing in the world after thinking. This book was torture. Not a page passed without an unwanted eruption of giggles or insight. Aziz is funny as hell, and smart as shit." Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author of Reclaiming Conversation : "It's the voices that will have you reading this remarkable book in one sitting! The voices of old people who married someone who lived in their apartment building or the building next door and the voices of the young people who check out hundreds of romantic possibilities a night, with so much choice that choice becomes impossible. And then there is the voice of Ansari himself, funny, of course, but also deeply compassionate. This book defines serious fun." Dave Eggers, author of Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? : " Modern Romance is just like Aziz Ansari himself--charming, thoughtful, reasonable, and able to distill the madness of the world into something both sane and wildly funny." Helen Fisher, Senior Research Fellow, The Kinsey Institute; author of Why Him? Why Her? : "Ansari and Klinenberg elegantly capture the entirely new ways that singles communicate, court, and find love today. Modern Romance is a captivating read, with deep insight into history, science, and culture, and loads of wit and charm. Along the way, you may even collect some valuable tips for finding a soul mate."
Copyright Date
2015
Lccn
2015-460409
Dewey Decimal
646.770207
Dewey Edition
23
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