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Author Begley, Louis.

Title Memories of a marriage / Louis Begley.

Publication Info. New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, [2013]

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  BEGLEY, LOUIS    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC BEGLEY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 188 pages ; 22 cm
Summary In the unforgiving class system of the 1950s, Lucy de Bourgh, daughter of one of Rhode Island's first families and beneficiary of an ample trust fund, was married to Thomas Snow, son of a Newport garage owner and his bookkeeper wife. It hardly mattered that Thomas was a graduate of Harvard Business School, or that he went to work for a great Wall Street firm and succeeded beyond expectations. In Lucy's eyes, he remained irremediably a "townie." Decades later, a chance meeting brings Lucy together with Philip, our narrator. They'd known each other earlier, and he remembers her as a ravishing, funny, ready-for-anything hellion with a well-earned reputation for generosity with sexual favors. He also remembers Thomas, killed in a freak accident years after his and Lucy's divorce, and is shocked to hear Lucy refer to Thomas insistently as "that monster." How is he to reconcile that unexpected and overflowing reservoir of bitterness and resentments with his own memories? Almost against his will, Philip sets out on a quest that soon becomes an obsession to discover who exactly these friends were whom he had understood so incompletely, and what happened in their marriage.
Subject Autobiographical memory -- Fiction.
Nineteen fifties -- Fiction.
Marriage -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
ISBN 9780385537469 hardback
0385537468 hardback
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