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Harper
November 2014
On Sale: November 11, 2014
Featuring: Douglas Petersen; Connie
416 pages
ISBN: 0062365584
EAN: 9780062365583
Kindle: B00JJV4QZG
Hardcover / e-Book
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David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced
his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day,
to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what
holds marriages and families together—and what happens, and
what we learn about ourselves, when everything threatens to
fall apart. Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his
reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds,
seduces beautiful Connie into a second date . . . and
eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after
their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more
or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen
year-old son, Albie. Then Connie tells him she thinks she
wants a divorce. The timing couldn’t be worse. Hoping to encourage her son’s
artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of
European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s
greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring
herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead with the original
plan is for the best anyway? Douglas is privately convinced
that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the
marriage, and might even help him to bond with Albie. Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and
at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story
of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he
loves, and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always
felt like a stranger. Us is a moving meditation on the
demands of marriage and parenthood, the regrets of
abandoning youth for middle age, and the intricate
relationship between the heart and the head. And in David Nicholls’s gifted hands, Douglas’s odyssey
brings Europe—from the streets of Amsterdam to the famed
museums of Paris, from the cafés of Venice to the beaches of
Barcelona—to vivid life just as he experiences a powerful
awakening of his own. Will this summer be his last as a husband, or the moment
when he turns his marriage, and maybe even his whole life,
around?
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