I Married You for Happiness (Platinum Readers Circle (Center Point)) - Hardcover

Tuck, Lily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611732514 ISBN 13: 9781611732511

Publisher: Center Point, 2011

Synopsis

His hand is growing cold, still she holds it. The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Still too shocked to grieve, Nina lets herself remember the defining moments of their long union, beginning with their meeting in Paris. She is an artist, he a highly accomplished mathematician - a collision of two different worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate love. As we move through select memories - real and imagined - Lily Tuck reveals the most private intimacies, dark secrets, and overwhelming joys that defined Nina and Philip's life together.

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Review:

Praise for ‘I Married You For Happiness’:

“Captivating . . . Absorbing... You also won’t un-read this odd little book once you’ve finished it. It will make you chafe. It will strike a chord.” – Marie Arana, The Washington Post

“In mourning, the only comfort of science is to assert the uncertainty of all that appears real. And perhaps that is what this slight, plangent novel is telling us: that character is unreadable, that memory is perilous.” – Colin Thubron, NYT

“This slim brush of a book manages to accomplish in a mere 200-plus pages what many novelists try to do in twice the verbiage. . . . Examines the disguises and surprises that energize a lasting marriage.”―Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times

“A magical, truthful tale.”― Huffington Post

‘This novel is an elegant vigil... a poised, readable, immediate novel’ Kate Kellaway, Observer

About the Author:

Lily Tuck was born in Paris and is the author of four previous novels – Interviewing Matisse, The Woman Who Walked on Water, the PEN/Faulkner award finalist Siam and The News From Paraguay, which won the National Book Award – as well as a collection of stories, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review. She lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1611732514
• ISBN 13: 9781611732511
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 231