Singled Out

"So began Richard Schickel's 'The Great Second Chance,' an article about how to pick up the pieces of a broken relationship that received more reader response than any other in Esquire magazine's recent history. And now -- for all the men (and women) terrified of Starting Over, or starting at all -- Richard Schickel has gone beyond that piece to create a compendium of folk wisdom, sage advice, and sympathy that makes Lord Chesterfield look like Woody Allen."