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Bezig met laden... Marriage: A Duetdoor Anne Taylor Fleming
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How is a woman supposed to act at the bedside of her husband in a coma? Caroline's son points out that dyeing her hair, right there in the hospital, is a weird choice. Caroline is also re-living the one perilous point in her marriage, when it seemed possible her husband might defect - to a beautiful friend of their daughter's. Mediocre marriages weren't in such jeopardy. Meanwhile, in the age of the uncommitted male, David Sanderson's wife has been unfaithful and he minds like hell. Councillors offer him workshops, Prozac and Viagra. His wife offers slinky undies instead of the cotton ones he loves. Why won't anyone accept that he's not depressed... he's heartbroken? Anne Taylor Fleming's witty and captivating portrait of spouses in crisis challenges the ways we look at marriage today. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Taylor has drawn characters who are clearly the wronged partners in their relationships but who aren't certain they can battle back to whatever intangible it is that makes maintaining a marriage worth the time and effort and emotional comnmitment. She has showcased the desire for revenge, the inability to forget even if forgiveness is offered, and the rupture that occurs in the case of infidelity. This is not an easy emotional read, with characters so raw and damaged. And her view of marriage, at least the marriages in these stories, is far from positive. But the complexity of each marriage and how infidelities changed the stories of the marriages is well drawn and cutting. Her writing highlights harsh truths and challenges the reader to delve deeper into the surface of conventional looking marriages, to see into the murky depths and to really experience the hard disconnects just under the surface.
This is a hard book to pin down with a tepid, I liked it or I didn't like it. It made me uncomfortable and certainly made me examine what I think are the truths of my own marriage, both the truths others see and the truths we live every day. I didn't love the characters, so wrapped up in their own senses of betrayal that they couldn't come across as terribly sympathetic but I understand why she's drawn them the way she has. I felt pity and scorn for them but never really connected with them or liked them, tiring of the all-consuming focus on their partners' affairs. But I think this is probably true to the interior lives of the wronged partner in a marriage so Fleming has created what she intended with these two well-written novellas. If you want to read about train wrecks, this tough little book will suit perfectly. ( )