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The Story of a Marriage
Andrew Sean Greer
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Description for The Story of a Marriage
Paperback. It is 1953, and America is still haunted by the war. Pearlie and Holland live quietly with their son in San Francisco, with a barkless dog in a vine-covered house. Apart from Holland's elderly aunts, the family have no regular visitors. That is until one day, a neat and elegantly dressed gentleman named Buzz appears at their door. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194. Clean copy with some reader wear.
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.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571241019
SKU
KTM0000759
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer was born in Washington, DC, the son of two scientists. He studied writing at Brown University and received his MFA from the University of Montana. He soon moved to San Francisco and began to publish in magazines such as Esquire, The Paris Review and The New Yorker before releasing a collection of his stories, How It Was ... Read more
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