Download or read book The Story of a Marriage written by Andrew Sean Greer and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less. 'A riveting and fascinating novel full of stunning observations and brilliant moments of truth and sympathy.' Colm Tóibín It is 1953, and in San Francisco Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself caring for both her husband's fragile health and her polio-afflicted son. Then one morning someone from her husband's past appears on their doorstep. His arrival throws all the certainties by which Pearlie has lived into doubt, and is brought face to face with the desperate measures people are prepared to take to escape the confines of their lives.
Download or read book Marriage A Novel written by Marriage and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of a Marriage written by Geir Gulliksen and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Happy Marriage written by Rafael Yglesias and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Marriage written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forever Marriage written by Ann Bauer and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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)
Download or read book Marriage written by Susan Ferrier and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets from a Happy Marriage written by Maisey Yates and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Secrets From a Happy Marriage is a beautiful, emotional, tender story with a gorgeous setting and characters I adored. Maisey Yates always writes stories that stay in your heart long after you read the last page."—RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times Bestselling Author New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates’s new novel introduces the women of the Lighthouse Inn B&B. They might not have it all together, but this summer, they’ll discover that together, they might still have it all… Rachel Henderson’s family is falling apart. Becoming a widow—especially at this age—is heartbreaking. With her teenage daughter, Emma, leaving soon for college, Rachel needs a friend—but local diner owner Adam is the last person she ever thought she’d lean on. From the outside, her little sister, Anna, has a picture-perfect marriage. But the weight of it is suffocating her. The only way for her to breathe again comes at a high price, one she’s not so sure she can pay. After raising two daughters on her own, their mother, Wendy, knows just how hard life can be. She’s done things she’s not proud of, things she desperately wants to keep from her girls—until keeping quiet is no longer an option. As long-held secrets bubble up and their old lives unravel, this family will need all their strength to start again and open their hearts up to the possibility of more. But most of all, they’ll need each other… Don't miss The Lost and Found Girl by Maisey Yates! A powerful novel of sisterhood, secrets and how far you’d go to protect someone you love.
Download or read book Marriage a novel written by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marriage written by H. G. Wells and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage features two protagonists: Marjorie Pope, the oldest daughter of a carriage manufacturer whose business has been ruined by the advent of the automobile, and R.A.G. Trafford, a physicist specializing in crystallography whom she marries against the wishes of her family at the age of 21. The novel traces the history of their relationship, which begins when an early airplane Trafford is piloting crashes into the garden of a house Marjorie's family is renting for the summer.
Download or read book Marriage written by Susan Ferrier and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Download or read book Recipes for a Perfect Marriage written by Morag Prunty and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2006-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender, funny, heartfelt novel about an uncertain bride and the Irish grandmother who teaches her the unexpected ingredients of marital happiness Tressa is sure of almost everything -- her career as a successful food writer, her great friends, and her sophisticated New York lifestyle. She has never been so sure of men, however, and as she hits her late thirties, the prospect of never marrying looms large. When Dan shows up on her doorstep, she hopes that he's "the one," and soon they are married. There's just one problem: With all the excitement of finding him, and then the wedding, Tressa is struck with an awful idea -- maybe he's not the one after all. Into this mess of uncertainty comes an unexpected life preserver -- the journals and recipes of her grandmother Bernadine. Bernadine and her husband, James, had the kind of marriage that Tressa always believed she should have -- the perfect marriage. Or so Tressa thought. In Recipes for a Perfect Marriage the unexpected secret to marital bliss unfolds through the voices and recipes of Tressa and Bernadine. They are generations and oceans apart, yet in this charming, beautifully imagined novel, they learn that marriage, like brown bread, is both sturdy and fragile, and never to be taken for granted.
Download or read book The Gospel of Marriage written by Earl Ronneberg and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gospel of Marriage is a novel that examines love, marriage, their associated issues, and the conflicts of values that arise both before and after marriage. Those value conflicts occur in the novel through the lives of the principal male and female characters, Edward and Kate, who are in a relationship at the start of the story. That relationship is framed by a mystery that serves to focus the reader's interest through how the mystery is viewed by the two other characters, Gregory and Phyllis, for, through the action of the novel, they both become involved in the lives of Edward and Kate, and, by that association, with the mystery. The ideas about love and marriage and all of the related issues come out through the reader's examination of the lives of Edward and Kate - both past and present for Kate, and through the present life of Edward. But there are numerous texts which are brought into play that extend well beyond Kate and Edward's lives. Examples of how this works are many and various. The title of the novel, The Gospel of Marriage, refers to Kate's performance - she is an actress, a Julliard acting school graduate - in a play by the same name. The entire text of that play, including stage directions, is included as part of the plot of the novel; it establishes its authority through the notion of a Gospel (which is interpreted as any guiding principle for action, in this case, the arena is that of social philosophy). The play is a body of analysis that argues for a view of marriage, love, fulfillment, and many other notions; the concepts in the play stand in sharp contrast to much of what is happening in marriages in the United States today. There are seven acts in The Gospel of Marriage play which amounts to a one-woman monologue given in the context of experimental theater. Each act consists of several sections and, taken altogether, those sections form a plethora of analysis ranging from various philosophers, other plays, books, and the conclusions of sociologists; each of these sources add to the collective story that the novel is telling. Other sources that focus the reader's attention are: love letters between Kate and Edward; from Kate's past, the reader is exposed to a transcript of a radio interview which explores how feminism rose after WW II, and the story of how the modern gothic novel became the best-selling genre for over a decade in the United States; Kate explains how, in the interview, the analysis of the modern gothic novel prompted her to choose her acting career. Through the life story and poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, further themes with respect to marriage, et al, are introduced; Barrett Browning's life and poems also serve as a catalyst for Edward to use his own poetry which is spoken aloud in a conversation between Edward and Kate. There are, then, an extraordinary number of viewpoints; they range from modern research on marriage, to complete plays, as well as portions of plays - short sequences or plot summaries - as well as poetry, novels, and the fictional and actual life experiences of women poets. Together with philosophical excerpts from major French, Russian, Swiss, English, and even Scandinavian writers and philosophers, all of whom inform the plot of the entire action of The Gospel of Marriage, the novel presents a timely and thought-provoking journey for any man or woman already married or anticipating marriage.
Download or read book To the Wedding written by John Berger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-03-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from one character's perspective to another, events and characters move toward the convergence of the wedding--and a haunting dance of love and death.
Download or read book Marriage written by Herbert George Wells and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel by H.G. Wells explores the societal pressure of marriage in Edwardian England. The story follows the marriage of two people who are not in love, and the consequences that result from this decision. It is a thought-provoking work that reflects the changing societal norms of the time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Portrait of a Marriage written by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
