Marry Me

By: John Updike

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Paperback | 1 April 2008 | Edition Number 1

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336 Pages

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19.8 x 12.6 x 2.1

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'I'm asking you, I think very nicely, to keep your hands off my husband'

Over a summer of snatched weekends, furtive phone calls and illicit trysts under the hot sun at Connecticut beach, Sally and Jerry begin a passionate affair. They wish to be together, but both are married to other people - Sally to Richard and Jerry to Ruth, whom he still loves. Ruth and Richard, meanwhile, have a secret of their own...

Matters soon come to a head, and the four must confront each together to dispute the new rules of engagement. As promises are made and broken, lies told and revealed, it seems that nothing is clear-cut. Who will end up with whom?

Industry Reviews

""Marry Me" is superb, sharp, witty, perceptive, honest. . . . With keen intelligence, Updike has cut a slice of life the width of one town, the height of one feverish summer, the depth of four people trying to understand why their center does not hold--and turned it into a mirror of our modern popular wisdom."--"Chicago Daily News"

"Updike's most mature work . . . His writing has deepened, grown wiser and funnier, like a face that is aging well.""--The Atlantic"

"It is, quite simply, Updike's best novel yet.""--Newsweek"
"Marry Me is superb, sharp, witty, perceptive, honest.... With keen intelligence, Updike has cut a slice of life the width of one town, the height of one feverish summer, the depth of four people trying to understand why their center does not hold -- and turned it into a mirror of our modern popular wisdom."

-- Chicago Daily News

"Updike's most mature work. His writing has deepened, grown wiser and funnier, like a face that is aging well."

-- The Atlantic

"Exuberantly lighthearted, genuinely comic."

-- Publishers Weekly

"A dazzling performance, cleverly and beautifully written."

-- Library Journal

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