| Description |
256 pages ; 19 cm |
| Series |
Everyman's pocket classics |
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Everyman's pocket classics.
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| Contents |
Snowing in Greenwich village -- Wife-wooing -- Giving blood -- Twin beds in Rome -- Marching through Boston -- Taste of metal -- Your lover just called -- Waiting up -- Eros rampant -- Plumbing -- Red-herring theory -- Sublimating -- Nakedness -- Separating -- Gesturing -- Divorcing : a fragment -- Here come the Maples -- Grandparenting. |
| Summary |
Offers a nuanced portrait of two deeply flawed but moving characters, Joan and Richard Maple and their entwined lives. This book traces the decline and fall of a marriage, they also illumine a history in many ways happy, of growing children and a million mundane moments shared. |
| Subject |
Married people -- United States -- Fiction.
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Short stories, American.
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| ISBN |
9780307271761 |
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0307271765 |
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9781841596037 hardback |
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1841596035 hardback |
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