Marriage: A Duet - Softcover

Anne Taylor Fleming

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074756809X ISBN 13: 9780747568094

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004

Synopsis

How is a woman supposed to act at the bedside of her husband in a coma? Caroline's son points out that dyeing her hair, right there in the hospital, is a weird choice. Caroline is also re-living the one perilous point in her marriage, when it seemed possible her husband might defect - to a beautiful friend of their daughter's. Mediocre marriages weren't in such jeopardy. Meanwhile, in the age of the uncommitted male, David Sanderson's wife has been unfaithful and he minds like hell. Counsellors offer him workshops, Prozac and Viagra. His wife offers slinky undies instead of the cotton ones he loves. Why won't anyone accept that he's not depressed...he's heartbroken? Anne Taylor Fleming's witty and captivating portrait of spouses in crisis challenges the ways we look at marriage today.

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Review:

Anyone contemplating marriage, deep into it, or bailing out should read and re-read this book. -- Frank McCourt, author of Angela's Ashes and 'Tis

Fleming clearly has a knack for making the ups and downs of marital life deliciously entertaining. --Publishers Weekly

This truly noteworthy debut will speak to anyone who's ever been (or thought of being) part of a couple. --Los Angeles Times

Two tight, elegantly composed and from-the-gut novellas. --Kirkus Review

About the Author:

Anne Taylor Fleming is a leading US journalist and TV commentator whose work has appeared in the NEW YORK TIMES, NEWSWEEK, the NEW YORKER and VOGUE. MARRIAGE: A DUET is her first work of fiction. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, journalist Karl Fleming.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 074756809X
• ISBN 13: 9780747568094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192