I Married You For Happiness - Softcover

Tuck, Lily

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9780007449781: I Married You For Happiness

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000744978X ISBN 13: 9780007449781

Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd, 2013

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Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Lily Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. “His hand is growing cold, still she holds it” is how this novel that tells the story of a marriage begins. 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, she 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—Tuck reveals the most private intimacies, dark secrets, and overwhelming joys that defined Nina and Philip's life together.

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About the Author:

Lily Tuck is the author of several novels, including: I Married You for Happiness; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The News From Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award; and the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante.

Review:

“Tuck’s skill is immense, as is Caruso’s, and there’s not a word of this heartbreaking but compelling listening experience that feels false or unearned.”
      —AudioFile (Washington Post)

“Barbara Caruso’s nuanced narration and crisp delivery match the author’s prose and her command of language. . . . Highly recommended for fans of contemporary literary fiction.”
       —Publishers Weekly

“Strangely captivating. . . . It will make you chafe. It will strike a chord.”
      —Washington Post

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