The Story of a Marriage
A Literary Fiction, Marriage, Historical book. We think we know the ones we love. Our husbands, our wives. We...
From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco “We think we know the ones we love.” So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know another person.It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband’s fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties by which Pearlie has lived...
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- Pages: 208 pages
- ISBN: 9780374108663 / 374108668
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You cannot go around in grief and panic every day; people will not let you, they will coax you with tea and tell you to move on, bake cakes and paint walls. [...] So what you do is you let them coax you. You bake the cake and paint the wall and smile; you buy a new freezer as if you now had a plan for the future. And secretly--in the early morning--you sew a pocket in your skin. At the hollow of your throat. So that every time you smile, or nod your head at a teacher meeting, or bend over to pick up a fallen spoon, it presses and pricks and stings and... No one would have known, from how he held my hand, [that] over the years of heartache he had hatched a plot to change my life forever. He held his grip and would not let me go. I do not know what joins the parts of an atom, but it seems what binds one human to another is pain. Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage Then I traveled. Quite a bit, in fact. You have to stockpile a few beautiful vistas in your memory, Pearlie. In case we're rationed again. Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage
I wanted to liked this book more than I did. It has earned a great many accolades, including earning a place on several Best Book of the Year lists, and such rave reviews as:"Bewitching ... A book whose linguistic prowess ad raw storytelling power is almost disruptive to the reader. It's too good to put down and yet each passage is... I really enjoyed getting into the head of the narrator (wife) of this book. The writing was well done and I felt what she felt as I learned her story. Marriage is complicated A mio avviso, un ottimo libro. Ben calibrato, ben scritto, uno stile mai patetico o autoreferenziale. La storia si disvela a poco a poco e mostra l'abilit di un tutto sommato giovane autore - abilit, questa, che trovo sempre encomiabile: saper progettare, e poi costruire con efficacia, architetture complesse attraverso l'uso sapiente...
