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I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS
By: Lily Tuck
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Featuring: Nina
208 pages
ISBN: 0802119913
EAN: 9780802119919
Kindle: B005IGBHYO
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Throughout Lily Tuckβs career, she's been praised by critics for her crisp, lean language and sensuous explorations of exotic locales and complex psychologies. From Siam to Paraguay and beyond, Tuck inspires readers to travel into unfamiliar realms, and her newest novel is no exception. Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. βHis hand is growing cold, still she holds itβ is how this novel that tells the story of a marriage begins. The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Still too shocked to grieve, she lets herself remember the defining moments of their long union, beginning with their meeting in Paris. She is an artist, he a highly accomplished mathematicianβa collision of two different worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate love. As we move through select memoriesβreal and imaginedβTuck reveals the most private intimacies, dark secrets, and overwhelming joys that defined Nina and Philip's life together.
 Media BuzzNPR Books - September 6, 2011
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