Author: MarriagePublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Marriage. A Novel
Author: MarriageThe Story of a Marriage
Author: Geir GulliksenPublisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 1524759694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A dramatic portrait of the dissolution of a marriage, written with brutal and lyrical precision, and nominated for the Nordic Prize. Jon, who is losing his wife to another man, is trying to understand what happened to his Great Love, by working, painfully, to see the story from her perspective. It begins as he asks her: "Can you tell me about us?" As he looks to his past and within himself, he begins to question the conventions of masculinity and femininity, understanding himself uncommonly as a man who challenges the male role--he's deeply embedded in family life, and identifies as sensitive, vulnerable, and nurturing. And finally, in an effort to understand how his wife could fall in love with someone else, he attempts an ultimate act of empathy: to tell the story from the other man's point of view, raising crippling questions: Is it possible to have sex without violating oneself or the other? How much of what we think is love is only projection? Is it possible to truly know another person? With prose unsettling in its precision and emotional heft, The Story of a Marriage cracks wide open the familiar story of a failed love, as it turns cliched phrases over and over again until they crumble, revealing a bitter hollowness--or ringing new meanings.
The Story of a Marriage
Author: Andrew Sean GreerPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374108663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Pearlie is already coping with her husband's fragile health and her son's polio when a stranger appears offering enough money that she starts to doubt her relationship with her husband.
Author: A Happy Marriage
Author: Rafael YglesiasPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439102309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, experience the highs and lows of a thirty-year marriage, beginning with a first encounter in Greenwich Village, the doubts that marked their middle years, and the final weeks of reconciliation before Margaret's death.
Marriage
Author: The Forever Marriage
Author: Ann BauerPublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 146830190X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A “scintillating . . . sharp and unsentimental” portrait of a marriage and a woman facing her own imperfect past from the acclaimed author of Forgiveness 4 You (The Washington Post). When her husband, Jobe, dies in their home one cool April morning, Carmen Garrett feels a mix of horror and excitement. Having always been more indebted to Jobe than in love with him, she is now finally free to live her life—finally done with the lie of their happiness. But as she helps her three children grieve, she discovers, after a tryst with her most recent lover, that her own life may be in danger. Her emotions reeling, Carmen reflects on the fateful days of her youth that made her the person she has become: privileged suburban wife, unfaithful widow, mother of a child with Down syndrome, fierce friend. The Forever Marriage draws comparison to the best work of Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Berg, and Alice Sebold as it “poignantly and powerfully illustrate[s] the great and often tragic ironies of life” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “With quiet power, Bauer explores the isolation, betrayal, duty, and, finally, compassion that constitute an unhappy marriage.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Marriage : a novel
Author: Susan Edmonstone FerrierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
Marriage
Author: H. G. WellsPublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 872659658X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Grab a blanket, curl up with your sweetheart, and enjoy this whimsical tale of matrimony written by the father of sci-fi. When Rag Trafford crashes his plane on the property of Marjorie Pope, they quickly strike up a relationship and try to navigate the ups and downs of married life. But when they start drifting apart after the birth of their four children, the couple withdraws from the world of dull routine and glossy artificiality in search of adventure and romance to rekindle their flame. To achieve this, they must survive a winter in the dangerous Canadian wilderness... Hilarious, provocative, and entertaining, this novel is ideal for fans of ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble ́. H. G. Wells (1866-1946) was an English author and Noble Prize in Literature nominee, prolific across several genres, and celebrated as the "father of science fiction". His notable science fiction works include the blockbuster hit adaptation ‘The Time Machine’, ‘The Invisible Man’, ‘The War of the Worlds’, and ‘When the Sleeper Walks’. Wells remains a significant influence on the sci-fi genre today.
The Story of a Marriage
Author: Geir GulliksenPublisher: Hogarth Press
ISBN: 9781784741600
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
'Brilliant and breathtaking...sexy and sad' A.M. HomesIn his struggle to understand what has happened to his family, how his wife could fall in love with another man after twenty happy years, Jon attempts to tell the story of the painful collapse of his marriage, but from her point of view. He tries to get inside her head, to see it all as she did, all the while knowing that he can never really achieve this, and that his efforts reveal more projection than insight. How can one truly know another person? How much of what we think is love, is just a construct? Is it possible to find - and maintain - the great love we long for? Gulliksen explores these questions, turning them over again and again till they crack, revealing hollowness - or possible new meanings.Intense, erotic, dramatic, raw - Story of a Marriageexamines two people's inner lives with devastating and fearless honesty. It is a gripping but slippery narrative of obsession and deceit, of a couple striving for happiness and freedom and intimacy, but ultimately falling apart.