| Marry Me: A Romance Contributor(s): Updike, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0449912159 ISBN-13: 9780449912157 Publisher: Random House Trade OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: "It is, quite simply, Updike's best novel yet." NEWSWEEK A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it. "From the Paperback edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 96096685 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.46" W x 8.32" (0.65 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |