Details
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Title
Marry Me: A Romance
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Author
Updike, John
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Binding
Paperback
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Edition
[ Edition: Repri
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Condition
Used - Very Good
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Pages
304
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York
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Date
August 27, 1996
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Bookseller's Inventory #
BOS-H-01g-01867
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ISBN
9780449912157 / 0449912159
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Weight
0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
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Dimensions
8.32 x 5.46 x 0.83 in (21.13 x 13.87 x 2.11 cm)
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Library of Congress subjects
Love stories, Marriage
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
96096685
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Dewey Decimal Code
FIC
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Summary
Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's been sleeping with Richard... As a hot, feverish summer of snatched weekends, secret phone calls and illicit lovemaking on the beach comes to a head, it turns out everyone knows more than they've been letting on. And that no one knows quite when to stop.
From the publisher
John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker. His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.
From the jacket flap
"It is, quite simply, Updike's best novel yet." NEWSWEEK
A deftly satirical portrait of life and love in a suburban town as only Updike can paint it.
"From the Paperback edition.
Media reviews
“Marry Me is superb, sharp, witty, perceptive, honest. . . . With keen intelligence, Updike has cut a slice of life the width of one town, the height of one feverish summer, the depth of four people trying to understand why their center does not hold—and turned it into a mirror of our modern popular wisdom.”—Chicago Daily News
“Updike’s most mature work . . . His writing has deepened, grown wiser and funnier, like a face that is aging well.”—The Atlantic
“It is, quite simply, Updike’s best novel yet.”—Newsweek
About the author
JOHN UPDIKE was the author of more than sixty books, eight of them collections of poetry. His novels, including The Centaur, Rabbit Is Rich, and Rabbit at Rest, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2009.
