—Book Browse "Tuck's crisp writing is a joy. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. There was no warning. Get this from a library! Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Olivia and James both have reasons for not wanting to get involved in a relationship, but the chemistry between them ignites. Despite my initial fear that this novel was probably going to be a mawkish, sentimental read, within pages I was gripped and read it in one sitting [in this respect it helps that it is a slender novel!]. I got the book anyway, and feel called to say that these time shifts felt natural, smooth, and easily understandable. "—Kirkus Reviews "A full and satisfying potrayal of a marriage . [Lily Tuck] -- The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. She’s an artist with no. A desperation because, well, consider the existential crisis: After months of erratic reading—of rarely being able to immerse yourself in a book as you used to (and with an alarming yet deeply rewardin. Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet. I Married You For Happiness's most distracting flaw is a tendency to name-drop, often with little justification. You're supposed to think she's interesting because she's intelligent and introspective and has sensitive feelings, but really she's just a passive hanger-on in her husband's way more interesting life, a sort of half-formed ghost wandering languidly in a world made by men, where most of the decisions are taken by men and all of the interesting things are done by men. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. I actually finished the book with no sympathy for the main character at all. You can't blame me though when you hear the premise. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020. Based on the title and on the synopsis on the front cover, I assumed that this would be a novel about a woman reminiscing about her 43 year marriage to her husband that had just died. has been added to your Cart. Also i realized i had no attachment to the characters. Dark-haired was daraired. It was an okay read, but I didn't care for the development of the story, and the ending was not good. There is a death. From Siam to Paraguay and beyond, Tuck inspires readers to travel into unfamiliar realms, and her newest novel is no exception. Nina didn’t understand most of it, and didn’t seem to want to understand. The main characters of this fiction, literary fiction story are , . And they were relatively happy. Obviously, you cannot do this in ordinary life -- believe me, I've tried although my wife complains that, soon, we won't have any china left." We see their lives through her artistic perspective and his love of mathematical principles. The reality of the novel was that the main character, Nora, was a cold-hearted jerk. 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