Thursday Thirteen #104
Thursday
ThirteenThirteen Things About Joshua Henkin's Novel Matrimony
- Nest week I will be hosting a giveaway of a single copy of the newly released paperback which Joshua Henkin will inscribe personally to the winner.
- Matrimony is a novel about writing a novel. But that's just the frame for a story about marriage. Well duh you might think. But it is so much more than a story about a marriage or even about the several marriages exampled; it is about marriage as a social institution and how it shapes our lives and our characters. And at the same time it is about:
- Parents and Children
- Money and Class
- Friendship and Family
- Dreams and Domesticity
- Ambition and Mortality
- Love and Loss
- Loyalty and Betrayal
- Infidelity and Forgiveness
- Learning and Living
- Character and Relationships
- Matrimony is a coming of age story set primarily on a series of college campuses that follows a couple (actually two couples) who met in their freshman year at college through the several stages of life as they learn life's most important lessons and sometimes pass and sometimes fail the tests circumstance present.
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I love learning about new books! Thanks for sharing your impressions! :)
Very cool...Happy TT.
This sounds interesting. I'll have to check it out.
Good TT list reflecting matrimony. It is too bad though infidelity has to be included. People need to learn that those that love longest, love best.
My TT this is week is about the 13 Myths of Sarah Palin
Sounds like an interesting read.
Happy TT!
Wow, I am visiting a lot of great blogs for the first time this week for TT. :)
I can't say I've seen this title on my recent visits to the bookstore; it's very interesting. I'll look it up. thanks!
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