Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Alfred A. Knopf (1976), Edition: 1st, 320 pages
Description
Fiction. Literature. HTML:Marry Me is subtitled “A Romance” because, in the author’s words, “people don’t act like that anymore.” The time is 1962, and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood, Connecticut. 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 there’s just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in.”.
User reviews
LibraryThing member davidroche
Desperate housewives but well written, funny and recognisable
LibraryThing member jmcilree
Disappointing. "Couples" covered much of the same ground. Vocabulary was prosaic. Never felt engaged by the story. Confusing ending. But parts of it spoke to me.
LibraryThing member el_pi
Not trivial adultery and marriage novel about relationship, chоice what we make inside and if inside it's just selfish, weak and neurotic who doesn't see yourself and doesn't care about people he thinks he loves it's tragedy. But we are selfish, weak and neurotic in some measure, so this book is a
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good ground for thought. Show Less
LibraryThing member SigmundFraud
I am almost finished with this novel as well. It is an intriguing story but Updike reads like an updated twentieth century Henry James. To me he is the WASP Philip Roth but not as readable. He is the preeminent storyteller of WASP life mid=twentieth century. The negotiations between married couples
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is fascinating. Show Less
Awards
Notable Books List (1976)
Language
Original language
English