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Marry Me: A Romance

by John Updike

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Disappointing. "Couples" covered much of the same ground. Vocabulary was prosaic. Never felt engaged by the story. Confusing ending. But parts of it spoke to me.

jmcilree | Dec 8, 2008 |

Desperate housewives but well written, funny and recognisable (

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Marry Me: A Romance

Original publication date

1976

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Jerry Conant

Sally Mathias

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New York Times bestseller (Fiction, 1976)

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Choose me your valentine, / Next, let us marry -- / Love to the death will pine / If we long tarry. -- Robert Herrick.

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Along this overused coast of Connecticut, the beach was a relatively obscure one, reached by a narrow asphalt road kept in only fair repair and full of unexplained forks and windings and turnings-off.

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Updike's eighth novel, subtitled "A Romance" because, he says, "People don't act like that any more," centers on the love affair of a married couple in the Connecticut of 1962. Unfortunately, this is a couple whose members are married to other people. Suburban infidelity is familiar territory by now, but nobody knows it as well as Updike, and the book is written with the author's characteristic poetic sensibility and sly wit.

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