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A happy marriage a novel

The story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, and children -- and to Enrique. Spanning thirty years, this achingl...

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Main Author: Yglesias, Rafael, 1954-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2009.
Edition:1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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Marriage > Fiction.
Spouses > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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Summary:The story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, and children -- and to Enrique. Spanning thirty years, this achingly honest story is about what it means for two people to spend a lifetime together -- and what makes a happy marriage.--From Amazon.com.
Physical Description:371 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:9781439102305
1439102309
9781439102312 (pbk.)
1439102317 (pbk.)
Author Notes:Rafael Yglesias was born on May 12, 1954. He dropped out of high school to finish his first novel, Hide Fox, and All After, which was published in 1972. He wrote three novels by the age of twenty-one and then stopped writing books between 1976 and 1984 to concentrated on starting a family. During this time, he made a living by writing screenplays. His other books include Hot Properties, Only Children, The Murderer Next Door, Fearless, and Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil. A Happy Marriage won the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. In 1992, he resumed writing screenplays. The first to be produced, Fearless, was an adaptation of his novel of the same title. He also wrote the screenplays for Death and the Maiden, Les Miserables, From Hell, and Dark Water.

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