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I Married You For Happiness
Lily Tuck
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
September 2011
On Sale: September 6, 2011
Featuring: Nina
208 pages
ISBN: 0802119913
EAN: 9780802119919
Kindle: B005IGBHYO
Hardcover / e-Book
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Throughout Lily Tuck’s 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. “His hand is growing cold,
still she holds it” 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 mathematician—a collision of two different
worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate love.
As we move through select memories—real and imagined—Tuck
reveals the most private intimacies, dark secrets, and
overwhelming joys that defined Nina and Philip's life
together.
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