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I Married You for Happiness by Lily Tuck.. A moving and lyrically structured meditation on love and loss that is both a brisk read and satisfying. A long marriage seen in retro-kaleidoscopic relief. – Joel Gardner, LitSnap Editor |
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"In this writing — purposefully fragmented, and composed with frugal economy — the characters verge toward the schematic, and the present tense in which the novel is couched increases the illusion of something light and fugitive. As for the afterlife, the dichotomy between theoretical science and sensuous reality is absolute." – The New York Times "Tuck, who lost her second husband, a lawyer (to whom this novel is dedicated), to cancer in 2002 after 25 years of marriage, reflects on marriage and loss, but I Married You For Happiness is not yet another memoir of grief. Her protagonist, Nina, a painter who especially prizes clarity in art, mulls over her imperfect but abiding marriage, her unexpected bereavement, and the unfathomability of her husband's nonexistence." – NPR |
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Author bio: Lily Tuck is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, The Woman Who Walked on Water, Siam, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and The News from Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award. More information can be found here: http://www.groveatlantic.com/#page=isbn9780802119919-bio |
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Book Details: General Fiction; (193 pp. Memo-real: Audiobook/Print editions) Publisher Website: http://www.groveatlantic.com/#page=isbn9780802119919 |
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