Marry Me by John Updike

Marry Me by John Updike

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.

In 1954, John Updike graduated from Harvard College and spent a year at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford, England. He was a member of The New Yorker's staff from 1955 until 1957. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his works. Updike earned the Rea Prize for Short Fiction in 2006, and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his Early Tales (1953-1975). In January 2009, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780394408569
ISBN 10	039440856X
Titel	Marry Me
Autor	John Updike
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Alfred A. Knopf
Erscheinungsjahr	1976-10-12
Seitenanzahl	320
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