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Married : a fine predicament

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Description

285 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"In Married, Roiphe offers an elegant defense of married life from the wry perspective of a wife and mother who survived the fifties, the sexual revolution and the women's movement.".
"Drawing upon a captivating range of examples from history, literature and popular culture - from Flaubert's Madame Bovary to Tony Soprano - as well as her own two marriages, Roiphe looks at the state of wedded union from an emotional and social perspective.
With her trademark blend of wit and wisdom, she explores such questions as the nature of romantic love, how hard times can bury a marriage, the importance of divorce, the joys and stresses of parenthood, infidelity and its temptations, the changing roles of men and women, and the troubled state of modern courtship. The result is a tribute not only to what marriage asks of us but also to what it gives us."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Marriage

ISBN

0465070663 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002003506

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries