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The Story of a Marriage: A Novel by Greer, Andrew Sean is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Story of a Marriage: A Novel about?
From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story full of secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco. We think we know the ones we love. So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know another person. It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husbands fragile health but also for her son, who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties by which Pearlie has lived are thrown into doubt. Does she know her husband at all? And what does the stranger want in return for his offer of $100,000? For six months in 1953, young Pearlie Cook struggles to understand the world around her, most especially her husband, Holland. Pearlies story is a meditation not only on love but also on the effects of warwith one war just over and another one in Korea coming to a close. Set in a climate of fear and repressionpolitical, sexual, and racialThe Story of a Marriage portrays three people trapped by the con
Who reads The Story of a Marriage: A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Greer, Andrew Sean
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781427204622
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.51 / 5 (3,066 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13