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I Married You For Happiness

by Lily Tuck
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Forty-three years of love and chance.

This book could be a good read for someone who enjoys heart-wrenching explorations of love and loss. Through Nina's memories, readers are drawn into the beauty and complexities of a longstanding marriage. Tuck's writing style is elegant and emotive, and her inclusion of mathematical concepts and theories adds a unique layer of depth to the story. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to reflect on what makes a relationship enduring, and how we grapple with the inevitability of death.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

I Married You For Happiness

by Lily Tuck
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ISBN: 9780007449781
Authors: Lily Tuck
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Date of Publication: 2013-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Romance, Literary Fiction, Contemporary
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Goodreads rating: 3.27
(rated by 1663 readers)

Description

"His hand is growing cold, still she holds it," is how this riveting, deeply moving story of a forty-three year old marriage by National Book Award winner Lily Tuck begins. Unfolding over a single night, Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Too shocked yet to grieve, she lets herself remember the defining moments of their long marriage, beginning with their first meeting in Paris. She is an artist, he a highly accomplished mathematician--it was a collision of two different worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate love. Slender, powerful, and utterly engaging, "I Married You For Happiness" is not only an elegant elegy to a man and a marriage, but also a meditation on the theory of probability and how chance can affect both a life and one's consideration of an afterlife.
 

Forty-three years of love and chance.

This book could be a good read for someone who enjoys heart-wrenching explorations of love and loss. Through Nina's memories, readers are drawn into the beauty and complexities of a longstanding marriage. Tuck's writing style is elegant and emotive, and her inclusion of mathematical concepts and theories adds a unique layer of depth to the story. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to reflect on what makes a relationship enduring, and how we grapple with the inevitability of death.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.