The Story of a Marriage
Greer, Andrew Sean
Merkerson, S. Epatha (NRT)
CD/Spoken Word
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From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in fifties San Francisco
BOOK SYNOPSIS
"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 young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husbands 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 and tried to protect her family are thrown into doubt. Does she know her husband at all? And what does the stranger want in return for his offer of a hundred thousand dollars? For six months in 1953 young Pearlie Cook struggles to understand the world around her, and most especially her husband, Holland.
Pearlies story is a meditation not only on love but also on the effects of war, with one war recently over and another coming to a close. Set in a climate of fear and repressionpolitical, sexual, and racialThe Story of a Marriage portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it. Lyrical and surprising, The Story of a Marriage looks back at a period that we tend to misremember as one of innocence and simplicity.
AUTHOR BIO
Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, the story collection How it Was for Me, and the novel, The Path of Minor Planets. He lives in San Francisco, California.
BOOK REVIEWS
Andrew Sean Greer is a devastating new writer--Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours
[Greer] has an eerie maturity not often found in young novelists. His prose, incantatory but not overheated, idles along with a top-hatted, almost courtly elegance. --David Kipen, The San Francisco Chronicle
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1427204624
ISBN(13-digit): 9781427204622
Dewey Decimal: 813/.54
Library of Congress: bl2008010177
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
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