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Story of a Marriage A Novel

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ISBN-10: 0312428286

ISBN-13: 9780312428280

Edition: 2009

Authors: Andrew Sean Greer

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AToday ShowSummer Reads Pick NPRCritics' Lists: Summer 2008 "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health, but also for her son who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep, and everything changes. Lyrical, and surprising,The Story of a Marriageis, in the words of Khaled Housseini, "a book about love, and it is a marvel to watch Greer…    
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 3/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Andrew Sean Greer's fiction has appeared in such publications as Esquire, Story, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. He lives in San Francisco, California.