A Day at the Beach
 

A Day at the Beach

by Helen Schulman

The marriage of Gerhard and Suzannah Falktopf is already in trouble when tragedy strikes on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a quintessential downtown art couple -- he a famous choreographer, she his muse and principal dancer and now the mother of their four-year-old son -- the strains in their marriage have been kept at bay by the glamorous velocity of their lives.

Though they... (read more)

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Yvonne M
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I thought the characterizations were annoying. I like a book that explores the inner lives of its characters, except that I did not like these characters, so did not care about their inner lives.

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