Ebook {Epub PDF} The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer

Lyrical, and surprising, The Story of a Marriage is, in the words of Khaled Housseini, "a book about love, and it is a marvel to watch Greer probe the mysteries of /5().  · The Story of a Marriage. by Andrew Sean Greer. pp, Faber, £ In , the year in which Andrew Sean Greer's third novel is mostly set, Author: Christopher Tayler. Lyrical and surprising, The Story of a Marriage looks back at a period that we tend to misremember as one of innocence and simplicity. Like Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, Andrew Sean Greer’s novel is a narrative tour de force that confirms him as “one of .

The Story of a Marriage: Review of The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer, plus back-story and other interesting facts about the book. Having just last month read Mr. Greer's more recent, deservedly Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "Less", I was so profoundly impressed I instantly bought everything of his ever published. When when the time finally felt "right" to read another Greer, I selected "The Story of a Marriage". And, I, kinda nervously, began reading. Then one Saturday morning a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything is thrown into question—especially her marriage. Lyrical and surprising, The Story of a Marriage is a masterpiece confirming Andrew Sean Greer as "one of the most talented writers around.".

The Story of a Marriage is about a bisexual love-triangle set in s San Francisco. Pearlie and Holland, high school sweethearts who rekindle their relationship after World War Two, have settled into a fairly typical nuclear family scenario. Lyrical, and surprising, The Story of a Marriage is, in the words of Khaled Housseini, "a book about love, and it is a marvel to watch Greer probe the mysteries of love to such devastating effect." Read more Read less. Greer’s new novel is equally praiseworthy, but the influence it evokes is less that of Proust or Nabokov than of Edgar Allan Poe. “The Story of a Marriage” is pervaded by a brooding.