Marry Me: A Romance - Softcover

Updike, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449912159 ISBN 13: 9780449912157

Verlag: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 1996

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Book by Updike John

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"Marry Me is superb, sharp, witty, perceptive, honest. . . . With keen intelligence, Updike has cut a slice of life the width of one town, the height of one feverish summer, the depth of four people trying to understand why their center does not hold--and turned it into a mirror of our modern popular wisdom."--Chicago Daily News

"Updike's most mature work . . . His writing has deepened, grown wiser and funnier, like a face that is aging well."--The Atlantic

"It is, quite simply, Updike's best novel yet."--Newsweek

Reseña del editor:

Marry Me is subtitled “A Romance” because, in the author’s words, “people don’t act like that anymore.” The time is 1962, and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood, Connecticut. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to others. A diadem of five symmetrical chapters describes the course of their affair as it flickers off and on, and as their spouses react, in a tentative late-summer atmosphere of almost-last chances. For this is, as Jerry observes, “the twilight of the old morality, and there’s just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in.”

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• Verlag: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0449912159
• ISBN 13: 9780449912157
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304