Second Marriage

by Frederick Barthelme

Book Overview

This book takes us into the lives of Henry and Theo, a thoroughly American middle class couple struggling to negotiate the suburban values of home and family.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671474413
• ISBN13: 9780671474416
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Absurdity in Everyday Events

This novel is a great portrayal of the absurd in everyday events. It points out the craziness of the day-to-day through events surrounding the separation of a southern suburban couple. Some quotes from the book that will give you as much an idea about its contents as any comments i might make: "Did she tell you about holding her sister's twenty-two on me? Or the time she cut my ankles with the peeler?" (p. 77) "For some reason I was thinking of the feeling you get when you're handling a particularly sharp knife in the kitchen and suddenly, without really thinking about it, it's almost as it you're afraid of what your hand will do, afraid that it wants to push the point slowly into your eye." (p. 139) "She had been a model before she married and wore no make-up except lipstick - - a thick, wet red that made her lips glisten like tiny pillows carefully plumped and arranged." (p. 57) Do these quotes pique your fancy? Do they make you stop and smile? Or wonder about what comes next? Then I think this book is for you. It makes for some damn good reading.