![]() ![]() Sometimes she found him staring at her frowningly, seeming deep in thought, but if she queried him he’d say, “Sorry, I was thinking about something else.” She couldn’t help noticing that he seemed to be preoccupied these days. It was all in the past anyway, and although she was his wife, it didn’t seem she had any right to probe into his previous love life. She was pretty sure that if she asked him point-blank who the woman was, he would deny there had ever been any such person. It was true that Marcus seldom showed his feelings openly. “Several times.” Sometimes she wondered if even now he regarded her as truly grown-up. “That’s what he said,” Jenna admitted dryly. ![]() ![]() I was so accustomed to thinking of Marcus as a surrogate big brother.” I can't believe that anyone married or divorced could read it without being moved.“Maybe,” Jenna said, thanking her stars that she’d never felt it necessary to tell Katie she’d been in love with Dean, “I didn’t know it myself. It is quite simply, Updike's best novel yet. 'Marry Me' is the best written and least self-conscious of Updike's longer fiction it contains his most sophisticated and sympathetic portraits of women. Updike's best fiction has always been his most narrowly focused in this novel the plot is direct-complex without becoming complicated by symbols thrashing obstrusively just behind the canvas-and refreshingly free from the portentousness that has marred several of his most ambitious novels. "This understatement, this unwavering vision fixed on only four characters, is a part of what makes the story so effective. Prescott called the novel Updike's most affecting. His writing has deepened, grown wiser and funnier, like a face that is aging well." In Newsweek, Peter S. ![]() In The Atlantic, Richard Todd enthusiastically welcomed the book: "'Marry Me,' for all its playfulness, is Updike's most mature work. Jerry Conant's love for Sally Mathias is the primary engine of the novel his wife Ruth's reaction, and the reaction of Sally's husband Richard, are the story's bookends. As in Updike's 1968 Couples, two married households-in this case, the Conants and the Mathiases-meet and entwine. ![]()
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