"Bereavement Fiction." . . "Amerikanisches Englisch." . . . "Ausgabe" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Famous for his fifty-year-old self-help book on love and relationships, Peter engages in a passionless relationship after the death of his wife and questions the validity of his advice when an ambitious young editor launches a contest for struggling couples based on his book." . . "Famous for his fifty-year-old self-help book on love and relationships, Peter engages in a passionless relationship after the death of his wife and questions the validity of his advice when an ambitious young editor launches a contest for struggling couples based on his book."@en . "Peter Herman is something of a folk hero. Marriage Is a Canoe, his decades-old book on love and relationships, has won the hearts of hopeful romantics and desperate cynics alike. Peter and his wife lived a peaceful life until her death in 2010. Now he passes time with a woman he admires but doesn't love - and he begins to question the advice he's famously doled out for decades. Then he receives a call from Stella Petrovic, an ambitious young editor who wants to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Marriage Is a Canoe with a contest for struggling couples. The prize is an afternoon with Peter and a chance to save their relationship. The contest ensnares Stella in the opaque politics of her publishing house, while it introduces the reader to couples in varied states of distress: a shy thirty-something Brooklynite whose husband may be just a bit too charismatic for his own good; a middle-aged publisher whose imposing manner has imposed loneliness on her for longer than she cares to admit. Then there's Peter, who must discover what he even meant when he wrote Marriage Is a Canoe if he is going to help the contest's winners and find a way to love again." . . . "Love is a canoe" . "Love is a canoe"@en . . . . . "Love Is a Canoe : A Novel" . . . . . "Peter's wife has died and he is living with a woman he doesn't love. When he receives a call from Stella, an ambitious young editor who wants to celebrate the anniversary of his book, he goes along with her idea of a contest for struggling couples." . "Love Is A Canoe"@en . "Love Is a Canoe is a smart, funny and romantic novel about the fragility of love and marriage. Marriage Is a Canoe, Peter Herman's decades-old guide to love and relationships, won the hearts of hopeful romantics and desperate cynics alike. But now it's 2010, and his wife has just diedâ??and he begins to question the advice he's doled out for decades." . . . . . "Text" . . . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . "Electronic books" . "General" . "Self-help techniques Fiction." . . "Authors." . . "Psychological fiction." . . "Loss (Psychology) Fiction." . . "Roman." . . "Self-help techniques." . . "Loss (Psychology)" . . "FICTION Literary." . . . . "Fiction." . . "Authors Fiction." . . "Bereavement." . .