It’s 1998 and Kim is a journalist in New York City. He thinks he’s found the only woman for him: Elise is beautiful, intelligent and, it goes without saying, a sensational lover.
The only catch is that she doesn’t want just him – and he’s agreed to it. For months on end, Kim is tormented by the knowledge that his Elise is sleeping with someone else.
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"She did not set out to men cry. She was too kind for that."
William Coles can write, there's no doubt about that. The woman who made men cry is a triumph, a truthful, moving exploration of a man in love. The name attracted me to this book, i was fascinated as to how one single woman could make men cry and as Coles points out so perfectly, she doesn't try to make men cry, "she just listens, she absorbs, she takes it all in. And the she asks questions. Always, always, back come the questions, and often they are very simple questions. There is nothing much to it at all."
Right this a simple formulaic book; man meets woman, falls helplessly in love and disaster ensues. Kim is a New York journalist for the The Sun, why anyone would want to work for the Sun is beyond me but I wasn't about to fault him for his career choice. That's however where the trouble starts as through he job he meets Elise, the ever elusive Elise who buys him a new knee for his birthday, dates other men and controls the cards. She's full of contradictions, she's confident. damaged and alluringly beautiful in an era where sexual availability was rife. Kim is transfixed by beauty, her confidence and blind to her faults. Coles wanders though the niches of their relationships uncovering how Elise came to make Kim cry without succumbing to cliches and unnecessary narration. It is a funny, brilliant read.
Right this a simple formulaic book; man meets woman, falls helplessly in love and disaster ensues. Kim is a New York journalist for the The Sun, why anyone would want to work for the Sun is beyond me but I wasn't about to fault him for his career choice. That's however where the trouble starts as through he job he meets Elise, the ever elusive Elise who buys him a new knee for his birthday, dates other men and controls the cards. She's full of contradictions, she's confident. damaged and alluringly beautiful in an era where sexual availability was rife. Kim is transfixed by beauty, her confidence and blind to her faults. Coles wanders though the niches of their relationships uncovering how Elise came to make Kim cry without succumbing to cliches and unnecessary narration. It is a funny, brilliant read.
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