Another Marvelous Thing
 

Another Marvelous Thing

by Laurie Colwin

Another Marvelous Thing is perfect for anyone who knows firsthand that opposites actually do attract. These spare and unsentimental stories display how two very different people -- a tough-minded and tenderhearted woman and an urbane, old-fashioned older man -- fall in love despite their differences, get married, and give birth to a child. (read review)

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SPOILERS AHEAD! A short but nice book about a couple, who are in the midst of an affair together, and the pain and pleasure it brings to them. He is older, refined, sophisticated, has a classy wife who creates a gorgeous and refined homes, he has had affairs before her but is quite taken with her being everything his wife is not. His lover is younger, has no regard for fashion whatsoever, lives in a cluttered house, does love her husband, and is cryptic, brutally honest about this...

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