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Country of a Marriage

✍ Scribed by Anthony Giardina


Book ID
100107039
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2012;1997
Tongue
en-US
Weight
128 KB
Edition
1st ed
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0307483339

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✦ Synopsis


The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence. And with this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America today. His work has appeared in Harper's, Esquire, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine and has been showcased alongside the work of such contemporary giants as Tobias Wolff and Robert Stone. He is that rare artist whose stories will endure.

The Country of Marriage shows, with frightening clarity, that the most ordinary lives are fraught with secret dreams and frustrations that can both support and sabotage everyday love. Giardina looks at our relationships--with an eye capable of clinical precision but never devoid of compassion--and gives voice to the emotions that lie unexplored and unexpressed beneath their seemingly placid surface.

In "Days with Cecilia,'' a highly articulate shop teacher reveals by attrition the...


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