Twice Around a Marriage - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert Olen ButlerTheme:Demographic Orientation/Rural, Demographic Orientation/Small Town, Topical/FamilyPublish date:10/31/2025Pages:252
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Texas Christian University PressISBN-13:9780875659381ISBN-10:0875659381UPC:9780875659381Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, Small Town & RuralBook Topic:Marriage & DivorceSize:8.70 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.545Product ID:SCH2WE2E84
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In Twice Around a Marriage, Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler delivers a tender and incisive portrait of a couple confronting the stories that bind them-and those that threaten to undo them-while locked down in Paris. Twice Around a Marriage tells the story of Amanda Duval and Howard Blevins, an early-septuagenarian husband and wife who were once married for twenty-two years, then divorced for ten, and now are in the tenth year of a second-try marriage. They have come to Paris to see if they should attempt to remain together or call it quits. The day after they move into a tiny AirBNB apartment overlooking the park where they first met, Paris shuts down for Covid. The two of them are trapped indefinitely together in this small space, and so, since they are both literary types, they decide to emulate the Decameron and tell each other stories on alternating nights-stories of their lives together and apart-as they try to figure out their future even as a 21st century plague passes by.
In Twice Around a Marriage, Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler delivers a tender and incisive portrait of a couple confronting the stories that bind them-and those that threaten to undo them-while locked down in Paris. Twice Around a Marriage tells the story of Amanda Duval and Howard Blevins, an early-septuagenarian husband and wife who were once married for twenty-two years, then divorced for ten, and now are in the tenth year of a second-try marriage. They have come to Paris to see if they should attempt to remain together or call it quits. The day after they move into a tiny AirBNB apartment overlooking the park where they first met, Paris shuts down for Covid. The two of them are trapped indefinitely together in this small space, and so, since they are both literary types, they decide to emulate the Decameron and tell each other stories on alternating nights-stories of their lives together and apart-as they try to figure out their future even as a 21st century plague passes by.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Texas Christian University PressISBN-13:9780875659381ISBN-10:0875659381UPC:9780875659381Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, Small Town & RuralBook Topic:Marriage & DivorceSize:8.70 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.545Product ID:SCH2WE2E84
Butler, Robert Olen: - Robert Olen Butler has published eighteen novels and six volumes of short stories, one of which, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. He has also published a widely influential volume of his lectures on the creative process, From Where You Dream. In 2013 he was the sixteenth annual recipient of the career-spanning F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. He teaches creative writing at Florida State University.
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