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From the bestselling writer of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story filled with secrets and astonishments occur 1950s San Francisco
“We think we realize the ones we love.” So Pearlie Cook starts her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery in the centre of each relationship, how we can ever before truly know someone else.
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself surviving in the Sunset district of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, caring not only for her partner’s fragile health but also for her son, who's afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her behalf doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties where Pearlie has lived are thrown into doubt. Will she know her husband by any means? And what does the stranger want in return for his offer of $100,000? For six months in 1953, young Pearlie Cook struggles to comprehend the world around her, most especially her husband, Holland.
Pearlie’s story is a meditation not only on love but also on the effects of war—with one battle just over and another one in Korea coming to an in depth. Occur a climate of fear and repression—political, sexual, and racial—The Story of the Marriage portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it. Lyrical and surprising, The Story of the Marriage looks back at a period that we have a tendency to misremember as one of innocence and simplicity.
Like Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier, Andrew Sean Greer’s book is a narrative tour de force that confirms him as “one of the very most talented writers around” (Michael Chabon).
