Marriage Made at Woodstock - Softcover

Pelletier, C

3.22

156 ratings by Goodreads

9780671516949: Marriage Made at Woodstock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671516949 ISBN 13: 9780671516949

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1995

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Cathie Pelletier is back with a hilarious, touching, and insightful novel about the Woodstock generation. In A Marriage Made at Woodstock, Fred and Lorraine Stone, a forty-something couple who met and fell in love at the famous musical festival in upstate New York, have evolved and grown - but not in the same direction. Fred has become Frederick Stone, Computer Accountant and Consultant, while his wife, Lorraine, has become Chandra - that's Sanskrit for changeable - Stone, animal rights activist and teacher of seminars in human psychology. Now that the nineties are the sixties upside down, can this marriage survive? Cathie Pelletier has established herself as one of the most bitingly funny and brilliantly original observers of the American landscape and spirit. Now, with her incisive wit and natural storytelling powers at their peak, Pelletier makes us look hard - and laugh even harder - at how strange life has become for children of the sixties. In A Marriage Made at Woodstock, she takes us to Portland, Maine, and into the lives of her most appealing and surprising characters to date.

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Review:

"I experienced equal measures of belly laughs and tears in my eyes as I read this poignant, funny, and bittersweet novel. Pelletier is a treasure." - Wally Lamb, author of She's Come Undone

"Cathie Pelletier...[is] in top form. The real marriage here is the natural union of humor and sadness." - Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls

"Pelletier's comic timing is impeccable, topping one absurd scene with another. " - Chicago Tribune

"Frederick Stone, Woodstock hippie turned oblivious accountant, may have sold his marriage up the river when he sold out to yuppie greed in this exuberant latest from Pelletier Hippie/Yuppie angst rendered hilarious and human by the effervescent wit of rising star Pelletier" - Kirkus

"One of those rare writers who, like Anne Tyler, can make a description of a refrigerator into an entertaining and insightful study of human nature... Pelletier's quirky voice and highly original sense of humor keep readers enthralled." - Annette Foglio, Entertainment Weekly

"In a novel that will surely bring her new fans, Pelletier takes scathing aim at the vanities of older baby boomers, reading a generation's identity into imported coffee beans and therapy seminars. " - Publishers Weekly

"In this always entertaining, often laugh-aloud account of the painful dissolution of a longtime relationship, Pelletier has produced an immensely satisfying novel that echoes the lives of many fortysomething readers. An excellent purchase for public libraries." - Library Journal

About the Author:

Cathie Pelletier was born and raised on the banks of the St. John River, at the end of the road in Northern Maine. She is the author of 11 other novels, including The Funeral Makers (NYTBR Notable Book), The Weight of Winter (winner of the New England Book Award) and Running the Bulls (winner of the Paterson Prize for Fiction). As K. C. McKinnon, she has written two novels, both of which became television films. After years of living in Nashville, Tennessee Toronto, Canada and Eastman, Quebec, she has returned to Allagash, Maine and the family homestead where she was born. She is at work on a new novel.

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