The Longest Date, Cindy Chupack
The Longest Date, Cindy Chupack
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The Longest Date
Life as a Wife

Author: Cindy Chupack

Narrator: Cindy Chupack, Ian Wallach

Unabridged: 4 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2014


Synopsis

After having endured enough emotional wreckage in her search for true love to fill a book (the New York Times bestseller The Between Boyfriends Book), two magazine columns, and five seasons of scripts for Sex and the City, Cindy Chupack finally, mercifully, at the age of thirty-nine, met the Perfect Man.He did not seem to Cindy like the Perfect Man. Ian, with his bad-boy ways, struck her as someone whom she absolutely did not want as a husband, but he soon proved his worth with wit, warmth, a series of spectacularly cooked meals, and a marriage proposal made on a beautiful beach, the prospective groom perched heroically on a white stallion.Unable to resist the romance, Cindy married him and settled in contentedly for the long and gratifying happily ever after...or so she thought. Being a wife, Cindy discovers soon enough, is not so different from being a girlfriend, only now you have a permanent houseguest. Ian’s endearing quirks became impossible-to-ignore and slightly irksome habits; what was once charming adventurousness now seems like recklessness (just why was he rappelling down the side of a building on a garden hose?); and his impossibly big heart has space enough for an impossibly big dog, a St. Bernard that looks, as Cindy realizes once it has taken possession of her home, “like a person in a dog suit.” And then there’s all his stuff.The Longest Date is the wonderfully funny, and ultimately, deeply moving story of a marriage, of the daily negotiations and accommodations about matters like cooking, holidays, space, money, and sex that every (newly or otherwise) wedded couple faces in the course of figuring out exactly who they are together and where they are headed. Cindy and Ian’s own ongoing courtship takes a surprising turn when they decide to have a baby—a plan that turns out to be far more complicated than they ever could have anticipated and that tests and strengthens their love for each other.The perfect companion for anyone navigating a marriage (or even just contemplating one), The Longest Date marks the welcome return of one of our most gifted and captivating comic writers.

About Cindy Chupack

Cindy Chupack has won three Golden Globes and two Emmys for her work as a writer/producer of HBO’s Sex and the City and ABC’s Modern Family. Several episodes she penned were individually nominated for Writers Guild and Emmy awards. Chupack’s other TV credits include Everybody Loves Raymond, Coach, and the hour-long romantic comedy anthology series she created for NBC, Love Bites (which can be viewed on Hulu.com). She has written about dating and relationships for many publications and had her own column in Glamour and O, The Oprah Magazine. She now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, her St. Bernard, and . . . you’ll just have to read the book.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Q2 on December 29, 2013

It's worth noting that I started reading this book without any prior knowledge of who Cindy Chupack is and how prolific she is. Chupack makes some assumptions that the reader does know about her background and drops some allusions to her impressive resume (Sex & The City?!). It was a nice surprise t......more

Goodreads review by Colby on August 10, 2016

I never thought I’d meet another woman who admitted to being bored at the Olympics of sexual gymnastics – a Ping-Pong sex show in Thailand. (I refer you to her hilarious chapter “I Find My Husband Rappelling.”) The genius of Cindy Chupack is that she makes you feel like she’s your best and funniest......more

Goodreads review by Gaele on July 22, 2016

A series of essays on life and marriage comprise this book: written by Cindy Chupack a writer for Sex and the City. Perhaps if I had been able to pass the frequent references to her life as a successful and award winning scriptwriter, I would have felt more engaged with this story. But, in the first......more

Goodreads review by Dana on January 01, 2014

I received this book through the Goodreads' giveaway program and was very excited to read it! For someone who has worked on such funny television shows, I was disappointed by how unfunny Cindy Chupack's book, "The Longest Date, Life As A Wife," was.  Chupack recounted her failed marriage to a gay ma......more

Goodreads review by Carla Jean on August 23, 2015

Amusing throughout, but especially poignant at the end......more