HISTORY OF A MARRIAGE IN THE CLUB
Story of a marriage it's the UThe latest novel by Andrew Sean Greer and it is the book chosen to discuss at the next meeting of the Santa Eulària des Riu Reading Club. A novel set in postwar America, the korean war years, racial segregation and the Rosenbergs trial.
Story of a marriage tells us how Pearlie Cook opens the story of her life with a sinuous and devastating exploration of the mystery that surrounds every intimate relationship. We are in 1953, And young Pearlie lives in San Francisco, in a secluded and foggy residential area by the ocean. There, jealously takes care of her son and her handsome husband, Holland, of delicate health since he returned from the war. To protect you from unnecessary shocks, Pearlie softens the sound of doorbells and the phone, and remove unpleasant news from the newspaper. Family life passes with placid and harmony until, one morning, a stranger appears at the door of his house, and everything changes.
Set in a time of supposed innocence and simplicity, which was actually marked by the invisible barriers of fear and silence.
«We all think we know those we love. But what we love turns out to be a bad translation, a translation done by ourselves from a language we hardly know. "
Reading Club
Story of a marriage
Santa Eulalia
Tuesday, 3 August 2021
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