Marry Me: A Romance

ISBN: 0449912159

Author: Updike, John

Condition: New

From one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century-and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series: a novel set in 1962 in Greenwood, Connecticut, where Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to others.A diadem of five symmetrical chapters describes the course of their affair as it flickers off and on, and as their spouses react, in a tentative late-summer atmosphere of almost-last chances. For this is, as Jerry observes, the twilight of the old morality, and theres just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in.