by Andrew Sean Greer · Faber & Faber · tapa dura · ISBN 9780571240982
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«The Story of a Marriage» is the literary fiction novel by Andrew Sean Greer, published by Faber & Faber in hardcover (208 pages, in English).
In 1953 San Francisco, Pearlie, devoted to her sick husband and son with polio, sees a stranger at her door cast doubt on her certainties and uncover the truth of her marriage. A novel about love, sacrifice, and a society that oppresses politically, sexually, and racially.
First British edition, published on July 3, 2008. Winner of the Publishing Triangle Award in the Ferro-Grumley category in 2009.
For readers of literary and historical fiction and book clubs seeking period dramas with secrets and complex characters.
Andrew Sean Greer is an American novelist and short story writer. Greer received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Less. He is the author of The Story of a Marriage, which The New York Times has called an "inspired, lyrical novel", and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which was named one of the best books of 2004 by the San Francisco Chronicle and received a California Book Award.
