Married - not unhappily but to a self-absorbed man unaware of her worth - Corrine meets a soulmate and begins an unexpected, immersive affair.
Told against the historical backdrop of 9/11, this densely-stranded novel deals with marriage and infidelity, North and South, the familiar and the new, life in metropolitan New York and with secrets: between spouses, between lovers and between generations. Together Luke and Corrine push their love's story, and her marriage, to the edge of the precipice. Not many novels afford a central place to the separated hermaphrodites of Plato's Symposium, but this one does. One of Jay McInerney's finest, a must read.
Married - not unhappily, but to a self-absorbed man unaware of her worth - Mary meets a soulmate and begins an unexpected, immersive affair.
Told against the historical backdrop of the Cold War and Kennedy's election this novel deals with marriage and infidelity, East and West, the familiar and the new, life in metropolitan Washington and with secrets: between lovers, between spouses, between friends. Together Frank and Mary push their love's story, and her marriage, to the edge of the precipice. Not many novels afford a central place to the separated hermaphrodites of Plato's Symposium, but this one does. Not, actually, Sebastian Faulks finest, but a good read nevertheless.
Jay McInerney, The Good Life, 2008
Sebastian Faulks, On Green Dolphin Street, 2001
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Thanks for recommending these. I just ordered them and looking forward to reading them. I may be oversimplifying here but the quest of understanding the soul, higher self, purity of love, and where all these fit with our animal instincts will remain as an unfinished journey. It’s hard to get a handle on all of the complexities and contradictions within us. The philosophers and poets before us and among us are born with this knack of being able to see through and capture it all. I think they are the lucky ones. I’m grateful for their work. They realize there is no one single definite answer and no one single destination. We just ought to enjoy the journey of discovery! For us mere mortals, the difficulty lies in managing the ups and downs of the journey and through out it all to stay true to ourselves and what we stand for. Recently, even though it came out in 2007, I started watching ‘Dirty, Sexy, Money’ Also, it takes place in the Big Apple and clearly exposes the foregoing contradictions.
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